This is an encouraging beginning. Now we need a public relations director.
Richard
www.flourishingearth.org
All people will be able to flourish in a flourishing natural environment
>From: Nicholas Maxwell <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Group concerned that academia should seek and promote wisdom
> <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: THES News Item about Friends of Wisdom
>Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 13:03:20 +0100
>
>Dear Friends of Wisdom,
>
> Well, the news item about Friends of
>Wisdom does appear in today's Times Higher Education Supplement (12 May).
>Not on the front page, but on page 9. I have attached a copy to this
>email. Above the article there is a cartoon (not reproduced in the
>attachment). In the UK there is a TV programme called "University
>Challenge" presented by Jeremy Paxman. In the cartoon, we see a group of
>contestants sitting under a sign which says "New style university
>challenge", and Paxman is saying "Your starter for 10 - What is the meaning
>of life?" It could be worse. When Anthea Lipsett told me last night there
>was going to be a cartoon - and that that would draw attention to the piece
>- I emailed her the following: "I now have a vivid picture of the cartoon
>- professors in gowns and mortarboards prancing into the world's battle
>zones armed with nothing more lethal than a piece of chalk, solemnly
>lecturing the combatants about the need for peace until struck down in a
>hail of bullets". Fortunately, we are not depicted suffering that
>indignity.
>
> I have sent our Press Release off to
>the education correspondents of all the serious UK newspapers I could think
>of, to BBC news outlets, start the week and channel 4 news, as well as to
>some magazines and journals. And I have informed various emailing groups
>of our existence. I don't really expect there to be much of a response,
>but we have at least begun to announce our existence and aspirations to the
>world.
>
> I will keep you informed of any
>developments!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Nick
>
>www.nick-maxwell.demon.co.uk
>
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