THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.”

— Hannah Arendt

BIRTHDAYS:

1468 Juan del Encina, Spanish author and composer. Ay triste que vengo, and Oy comamos y bebamos, and Señora de hermosura, and Más vale trocar, and Levanta, Pascual, Levanta

1802 Harriet Martineau, British journalist, political economist, abolitionist, and feminist.

1827 Johanna Spyri, Swiss children’s book author (Heidi).

1929 Anne Frank, German-born Jewish girl who chronicled her life in hiding from Nazi persecution in Amsterdam during the Second World War in a personal diary later published posthumously.

1962 Jordan Peterson, Canadian psychologist and author (12 Rules for Life).

MISCELLANEOUS:

SOMEONE YOU SHOULD KNOW. Hannah Arendt