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。
　
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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