“”My Old Kentucky Home” is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster, probably composed in 1852… The song described originally an everyday scene on a slave plantation and was a beloved song in minstrel shows….Abolitionists thought the song stimulated ‘the sympathies for the slave, in which anti-slavery principles take root and flourish’… It became the official state song of Kentucky on March 19, 1928 […]
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“… Do you understand?” How many times do we hear this question? or do we say it? A teacher to a pupil, a parent to a child, a husband to his wife. What do we mean by asking this question? May I use two examples. First scene. A foreign student comes to a host-family. It is
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“Any fool can know. The point is to understand” Albert Einstein Since Albert wrote his aphorism about “knowledge” and “understanding”, the “Fools” made many steps further in knowledge, technology, communications, social networks etc. Those magic devices and their clever apps in one hand and let us know everything in depth and width (more or less…). We can be in touch and chat with
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