Go forth and set the world on Fire
Door: Marion
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23 Mei 2011 | Verenigde Staten, Washington, D. C.
We started off with an Academic tour, the Loyola University. Loyola is named after the Jesuit St. Ignatius of Loyola. His vision to education was “Go forth and set the world on Fire”. Universities are the last phase of education and the professors are fully responsible for the students. In the USA a Bachelor degree takes four years and the parents pay in Loyola more than $100,000 for the education. The higher the status of a university the more education costs, Harvard is four times the price of Loyola, To keep up status universities invest a lot in sports programs for funding. Sports stadiums can hold as much as 80,000 seats and also a lot of funding comes from “old” money donated by former graduates.
The university was built after the 1884 World Fair of New Orleans and is the extension of the Garden District, the Yankee side of New Orleans. The former grounds of the exhibition was transformed into Audubon park in the tradition of “bringing nature into the city”. Every big city should have nature within its boundaries and the elite used it to educate the poor by showing them culture and the beautiful side of nature. Winding paths and small lakes, always a place where music can be listened to.
Our tour of the city took us from the park and Garden District with its beautiful mansions to the former Warehouse district, the Central Business District and ended with the River Walk, a touristy entertainment area with a covered market with small shops.
We had great fun watching how Fudge was made and after five hours of what I call a survival of the fittest tour we called it a day.
The university was built after the 1884 World Fair of New Orleans and is the extension of the Garden District, the Yankee side of New Orleans. The former grounds of the exhibition was transformed into Audubon park in the tradition of “bringing nature into the city”. Every big city should have nature within its boundaries and the elite used it to educate the poor by showing them culture and the beautiful side of nature. Winding paths and small lakes, always a place where music can be listened to.
Our tour of the city took us from the park and Garden District with its beautiful mansions to the former Warehouse district, the Central Business District and ended with the River Walk, a touristy entertainment area with a covered market with small shops.
We had great fun watching how Fudge was made and after five hours of what I call a survival of the fittest tour we called it a day.
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23 Mei 2011 - 13:07
Joop Mul:
You survived!!!! :)
Well done!
"Professors are fully responsible for the students." sounds more like we (Well, while I was not retired yet) PRIMARY school teachers being responsible for, not only teaching the pupils all the subject areas but also their well-being, while in our care.
As secondary teachers seem to be more responsible for the subject content rather than the student, it sounds a bit like "full-circle".
Joop -
25 Mei 2011 - 12:08
Monique:
lieve oma
is het daar leuk? ik heb mooie foto,s gezien ik heb met opa die foto,s gezien en we hebben het over de slavernij het mag niet het is heel erg maar we gaan vandaag samen foto,s maken dus we hebben het vandaag net zo leuk als jij en we gaan ook een ijsje eten
doeg veel groetjes van opa en monique en de hondjes en de rest van de famielie
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