ケネデイ大統領の名演説。。。

September 30, 2013
Dear Friends and Students
I would like to write the coming week's Oral Interpretation. It would be Kennedy's speech.

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
US President John F. Kennedy
Inaugural Address
January 20, 1961

ケネデイ大統領は、２０世紀屈指の名演説家との呼び声が高く、世界中の多くの人を魅了
してきました。演説では”文章を短く区切り、　ドラマチックにメッセージを伝える。”
という手法を用いました。
これによって、聴衆は考えられ、内容を吟味できるわけです。

ＧＴＯ

模倣とは、最も誠実な追従なり。

September 29, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."
Charles Caleb Colton
English Cleric and Writer
1780-1832
"模倣とは、最も誠実な追従なり。”
One thing that Professor Kevin Mark stresses in his class is "shadowing" or imitation.
We should try this method in English conversation classes this week.
Imitation is the base of any educational method in any countries or any language teaching.

About twenty years ago, the professor in Tsukuba University said what he learnt from his professor in Kobe University was that the secret of language learning is "imitation, imitation, imitation."

So, let's imitate.
GTO

Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears...

September 27, 2013
Dear Students and Friends

You should think about the message and write about it in your notebook.

"Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak."
Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher
c.50-c.130
自然が人間に、したは１枚だが耳を２つ与えたのは、自分が話すことの２倍を、
相手から聞けるようにするためである。

Every man has a right to be conceited....

                                         A picture of GTO with Yokohama City Water workers

September 26, 2013
Dear Students and Friends

I ask all the students to read my Blogs and think about the messages I am giving; and write 50 to 100 words writing(essay/composition) from the message. Some may write for the writing class and others for the presentation in a class.

Message of September 26, 2013:
" Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful."
Benjamin Disraeli
British Prime Minister and novelist
1804-1881
誰でも成功するまでは、うぬぼれている権利がある。

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital....Abraham Lincoln

September 25, 2013
Dear Students and Friends

I hope all of you are doing fine. I hear a complain that we are not on schedule and not learning for 90 minutes. I would strongly follow the complain or request to follow the schedule as we should.
However, this would be a labor we have to follow in the coming semester. Let's welcome this.

"Labor is prior to, and independent of capital.  Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.  Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the USA
1809-1865
労働は、資本に先立つものであり、資本から独立している。資本は、労働の
成果に過ぎず、最初に労働が存在していなければ、絶対に存在しえなかった。
労働は資本に勝るものであり、資本よりはるかに考慮すべき価値がある。

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

September 24, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
This is a picture of the United Nations University Headquarter Campus in front of Aoyama Gakuin University.

I think the most important thing in education is to read, more than just attending classes.

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
Joseph Addison English essayist and politician
1672-1719
精神にとっての読書は，身体にとっての運動と同じである。
　
Ｔｏ　ｔｈｅ　ｓｔｕｄｅｎｔｓ：　Ｙｏｕ　ｓｈｏｕｌｄ　ｗｒｉｔｅ　ｔｈｅ　
ｍｏｓｔ　ｉｍｐｒｅｓｓｉｖｅ　ｗｒｉｔｉｎｇ　ｙｏｕ　ｃａｍｅ　ａｌｏｎｇ　
ｉｎ　ｌｉｆｅ．

GTO

He that is proud, eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle. Shakespeare(Troilus and Cressida,Act 2. Sc.3)

September 23, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
We had a mass for the graduates and teachers who died in 2012-2013 and  those who died before.
We had it in Yamate catholic Cathedral and later to Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery

to visit the graves of our teachers.
It is season to visit the graves of our ancestor in Asia.
Did you visit one?

"If  to do were as easy as to know what were good to do,
chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces."
Shakespeare
Merchant of Venice
Act 1, Scene 2

GTO

I am not discouraged....

September 20, 2013
Dear Students and Friends

" I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."
Thomas Edison
US inventor
1847-1931
私は落胆してはいない。なぜなら、失敗に終わった試みはすべて、
次への新たな一歩になるからだ。

Thursday, September 19 was the full moon of autumn, a very important day for the Chinese.
It was also same day as the Japanese Army attacked the Nationalist China at Marco Polo Bridge in Mukden.  Why armies attack the foe in time of Feast?  It is maybe the others are not prepared and easier for them to start the battle. Hope Japan learn from the mistake, if they think it was a wrong choice.
Good Day
GTO

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

September 19, 2013
Dear Students and Friends

"It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't."
Martin Van Buren
Eighth US President
1782-1862

I had a chance to see Mr. Shimura who is the right hand man of Mr. Fujiki, a big man in Yokohama.
He explained how big people receive incomes from their inferiors.  This is true for most politicians, religious groups or any hierarchical structures, top gets the most.

Good Day
GTO

Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence

Cantus Missae Latin Agnus Dei Holy Mass Ed. Vat. XVIII Gregorian Chant

Gregorian Chant-Pater Noster

He who has a thousand friends....

September 18, 2013
Dear Students and Friends

Quote:"He who has thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
US philosopher, poet, essayist
1803-1882
千人の友人を持つ者は、いなくても困らないような友人は一人もいない。ひとりの敵を持つ人は、
どこに行ってもその敵に出会うことになる。

The school has started in Nihon University. I would ask all of you to read the Blog daily and come with a presentation on Tuesday; Thursday bring your textbook and printed material ( Inauguration Speech of John F. Kennedy).

Good day
GTO

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow....Macbeth, Act 5

September 16, 2013
Dear Students and Friends

We had a typhoon this morning, but more than that rain in Kyoto flooded Katsura River.
Tomorrow Nihon University will start their second semester. That means I have to start working.
The Blog will be used by the university students to be read for writing their Journals.
The first thing is always Self Introduction.

Quote:
"To-morrow, and To-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this pretty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time.
Macbeth, Act 5, Sc.5
Shakespeare

Imagination is the beginning of creation...

September 15/16,  2013
Dear Students and Friends

Hope all are doing fine.Summer is ending and typhoon is here.
Soon autumn will be there and we would start a new semester.

Quote from George Bernard Shaw:
" Imagination is the beginning of creation.
You imagine what you desire you will want,
and at last  you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw
British play writer

A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine.

September 13, 2013
Yom Kippur
Dear Students and Friends
Today is the Jewish New Year.  Their calendar starts with this sunset of September 13, 2013 as their New Year.
Today's quote is:
"A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine."
Talmud
機を得た引用句は、飢饉におけるパンのようなものである。

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

September 10, 2013
This is a picture of my dog, ARARE few years ago.

"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."
Thomas Edison
US inventor
1847-1931
私は落胆してはいない。なえなら、失敗に終わった試みはすべて、
次への新たな一歩になるからだ。

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.

September 8/9, 2013
Dear Students and Friends

September is already 8/9, it is Labor Day in the USA.
There are many questions in life I have to answer now, no more postponing.

"Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying."
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
German poet
1715-1769
死ぬときに”こう生きてきてよかった”と思うような生き方をしなさい。

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

September 1/2, 2013

Dear Students and Friends

" The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
Elbert Hubbard
US author
1856-1915
人生で犯しうる最大の間違いは、間違うことを絶えずおそれていることだ。

Good Luck for tests and assignments for those facing it.

gto