new years resolutions

[Michele Simionato]

Gon alo Rodrigues <op73418 at mail.telepac.pt> wrote in message news:<446j1v0vrlb19rnh9trkllodvjmohbld16 at 4ax.com>...
> I have always had my ideal notion of University somewaht akin to those
> monasteries in the desert, where no women were allowed and the monks
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A part for this, I would agree with you ;-)

> practised deep ascesis, wearing only rough clothes and no underwear.
> Monasteries that were the storehouses of knowledge; Centers of
> excelence, and even elitist but where anyone who was humble enough could
> enter, and in silence and quietness seek enlightenment.
> 
> But it is already too late to mourn. For reasons both good and bad such
> an ideal is unattainable.
> 
> With my best regards,
> G. Rodrigues

Bye,

               Michele