Mary Parker Follett (1) LO29871

From: Richard Karash (lo@TheWorld.com)
Date: 01/30/03


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Replying to LO29859 --

Dear Organlearners,

Alan Cotterell <acotrel@cnl.com.au> writes:

>What is the connection/similarity between Mary Parker Follett
>and Publius Ovidius Naso? I read Ovid when I studied latin at
>Melbourne High School in the fifties. As a pubescent lad I
>found it a bit stimulating.

Greetings dear Alan,

The Roman poet Ovis (Publius Ovidius Naso) was intrigued by
metamorphoses (emergence at the edge of chaos), more than any other
Roman and probably even Greek thinker. In this he was preshadoing
Goethe. He wrote extensively of which the epic poem Metamorphoses
is best known. Fellow learners can read more about this poem at
< http://larryavisbrown.homestead.com/files/xeno.ovid1.htm >

In my own high school days. also during the fifties, the study of other
langauges than our two official languages (Afrikaans and English) was
ligatory. At our school we had to study German, Latin and Sotho
(a Bantu langauge). I felt rather sad when in the last two years i had
to drop Latin and Sotho because of the specialisation nature of the
curriculum.

Today the study of languages other than the one in which you are
going to do business is considered a wate of time. What a tragedy
to sacrifice intellectual broadening to make money.

>Was Mary a bit of a goer?

I think she was a great goer, if we understand under it someone who
creates profoundly. In her days few talked about creativity and she
probably talked most about it, never lacking the walking her talking.

With care and best wishes,

-- 

At de Lange <amdelange@postino.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa

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