Might this also be the reason that successful composers starve? REH
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 6:47 PM Subject: Re: [Futurework] Fw: Why Jews Don't Farm > Why don't jews farm? > > Might the reason be largely that the life of the mind > cannot flourish among persons who spend the best hours of their > lives *toiling*? > > The kind of intensive and subtly nuanced > studies which I gather go on in the Yeshivas(sp?) > cannot come "after" wearing yourself out in agricultural > labor (not to mention the calluses such labor > forms on both the hand and the soul...). > Or do we have some persons here who say not only > that it is possible, but that hard labor > in the hot sun all day nurtures in-depth > esoteric hermeneutical > studies and stimulates them to widely *flourish*? > > I reacently read that a study found that Yeshiva students > did much better at solving difficult geometry problems > than the students in normal schools, even though they > did not have as much nominal math education, etc. The reason > seemed to be that they are trained to approach a problem from many > angles in depth (hermeneutics, again...), etc. > > As Charlie [the Starkist...] Tuna asked: > > Which do you want: A tuna with good taste, or a > tuna that tastes good? > > \brad mccormick > > -- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
