Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Grand Strategy
David Brooks describes a popular course at Yale that connects civilization's great thinkers and ideas with the questions of today. It is taught by three outstanding professors, but he says that one of them, Charles Hill is by far the most popular with students. Brooks comments:
"College students, even at Yale, live enveloped by uncertainty. What should I do with my life? What really matters? Hill seemed to them a man who in the course of years had figured it all out. He was an austere but commanding presence in their lives. "
The power of someone who logically and systematically applies universals to the issues we confront daily is well known to the millions of us who discovered Ayn Rand in our youth. From my article "Total Quality management in the New Millennium"
"In an effort to capture the essence of her philosophy, known as Objectivism, I thought it best to relate a story I heard her close associate Nathaniel Brandon tell when asked why he thought her books appealed so much to adolescents. He explained that people at this age often begin to question the meaning of life and the reason for their existence. Dr. Brandon said that they naturally look to their parent's lives for answers, and come to the conclusion that there must be something better. Ayn Rand supplies the something better."
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"College students, even at Yale, live enveloped by uncertainty. What should I do with my life? What really matters? Hill seemed to them a man who in the course of years had figured it all out. He was an austere but commanding presence in their lives. "
The power of someone who logically and systematically applies universals to the issues we confront daily is well known to the millions of us who discovered Ayn Rand in our youth. From my article "Total Quality management in the New Millennium"
"In an effort to capture the essence of her philosophy, known as Objectivism, I thought it best to relate a story I heard her close associate Nathaniel Brandon tell when asked why he thought her books appealed so much to adolescents. He explained that people at this age often begin to question the meaning of life and the reason for their existence. Dr. Brandon said that they naturally look to their parent's lives for answers, and come to the conclusion that there must be something better. Ayn Rand supplies the something better."
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