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Trying out Googledocs

Here's a Powerpoint presentation I did for ETAP 526. This is an experiment with Googledocs.

PowerPoint Basics

Buddhist Thought and Education

Teach your children well...

Dalai Lama Quote of the Week

To solve the problems humanity is facing, we need to organize meetings of scholars, educators, social workers, neuroscientists, physicians, and experts from all fields to discuss the positive and negative sides of what we have done thus far, as well as what needs to be introduced and what needs to be changed in our educational system.

Proper environment plays a crucial role in the healthy growth of a child. All problems, including terrorism, can be overcome through education, particularly by introducing concern for all others at the preschool level.

Living in society, we must share the suffering of our fellow citizens and practice compassion and tolerance not only toward our loved ones but also toward our enemies. This is the test of our moral strength.

We must set an example by our own practice. We must live by the same high standards of integrity we seek to convey to others. The ultimate purpose is to serve and benefit the world.

--from How to See Yourself As You Really Are by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins, Ph.D.

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Why are Finnish kids so smart? Finnish-ing School!

As Monty Python fondly quipped: "Finland, Finland, Finland...the country where I'd like to be...going camping or swimming or just watching TV..."

Here's the article link.


Take a look at the video clip from The Wall Street Journal:

Experimenting with photos

Hi there,

Just seeing if I can properly upload photos and what they look like from a posting.

These from my personal collection: when Uma, our Finnish Spitz, was about 3-4 months old, we discovered how much she loved snow.

She prefers to be outside when it is really crappy - sleet, rain and snow are her favorites.

By the way, I looked up Uma in my handy-dandy "Goddesses of the World" encyclopedia and found that Uma is another name for Kaali the Destroyer. If you've ever lived with a puppy, you know how apt her name is!