Universities or Holy Education?
(Les universités ou les saintes éducation)
1. Living Fossils - Ichou
The ginkgo tree or the maidenhair tree "is the only extant species within this group. It is one of the best known examples of a living fossil."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginkgo
The tree is also very common in Japan where it is called "Ichou" as my pictures taken around the Yuraku-chou Station and presented yesterday and today show.
The largest gingko tree in the world is reportedly in Aomori Prefecture, the most northern prefecture of the Honsyu Island, Japan.
http://web01.joetsu.ne.jp/~stein/kitakanegasawa-ichou.htm
The tree is 40m (130 feet) tall and 1,000 years old. As it is so large, it looks like forming one small forest with so many aerial roots from its trunk to the ground yet to touch the surface.
Anyway, we can see the origin of crude oil when standing on a street with gingko trees used as boulevard trees.
2. Global University Ranking
You may still think that the Vatican is the largest benefactor to the present academic communities in Europe and America.
Yer, the annual publication of university rankings around the world has been published by The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).
http://blog.beerkens.info/index.php/thes-qs-world-university-rankings-2007-top-100-universities/
Rank....Country.........Name
1......US...........HARVARD University
2......UK..........University of CAMBRIDGE
2......US...........YALE University
2......UK...........University of OXFORD
5......UK...........Imperial College LONDON
6......US............PRINCETON University
7......US............CALIFORNIA Institute of Technology (Caltech)
7......US............University of CHICAGO
9......UK............UCL (University College LONDON)
10....US............MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology (MIT)
11....US............COLUMBIA University
12....Canada....MCGILL University
13....US............DUKE University
14.....US...........University of PENNSYLVANIA
15.....US...........JOHNS HOPKINS University.
16.....Australia .........AUSTRALIAN National University
17.....Japan...............University of TOKYO
18.....Hong Kong ......University of HONG KONG
19.....US...........STANFORD University
20.....US...........CORNELL University
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Among top 20 universities, American ones account for 60% (12/20). With UK universities, US/UK universities account for 80% (16/20).
With Canada and Australia, Anglo-Saxondom universities account for 90% (18/20).
The other two belong to the Japanese Civilization and the Chinese Civilization, respectively.
You must now think about why the War on Terror cannot be solved by the U.S., the U.K., Australia, and Canada.
With so many excellent universities, can't they properly and effectively handle the War on Terror?
Then, those universities are not excellent at all.
Otherwise, they are so smart and clever as measured with a wrong scale.
A symbol of University of Tokyo is a leaf of Ichou or the Ginkgo tree; yet it is interesting to find an Australian university being ranked higher.
3. AUSTRALIAN National University
There is an interesting blog operated by the Australian National University.
http://china-japan-reconciliation.blogspot.com/
It is dedicated for "Reconciliation between China and Japan."
Its recent issue is the passage of H. Res. 121, the US House of Representatives Comfort Women resolution.
There are many arguments by participants and contributors to the blog on the issue related to crimes on women conducted by the Military of the Empire of Japan in several years before 1945.
But they seem to lack ability to think about why such a tragedy occurred in a limited time period of the history, which tells it is a very exceptional age for Japan.
I don't know how many Asian women, including contemporary Iraqi and Afghan women, were killed by Western colonial rulers, their soldiers, the Chinese Communist Party and their soldiers (in the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War, and its other acts of invasion of neighbor regions, maybe including Tibet and Islamic regions), as well as US soldiers (in the Korean/Vietnam Wars and the Gulf War) in addition to the China-associated Pol Pot Faction in Cambodia who killed at least one million people.
Poor Asian and Muslim women today are afraid more of European soldiers, Americans soldiers, and China-associated violent movement or exploitation than of the Military of the Empire of Japan that ceased to exist in 1945.
In the name of "Reconciliation between China and Japan," I am afraid that they may be fostering or infusing a very wrong view and idea on the world and history, if they have no respect to Japan that has made wars overseas only totally in a few decades in its 2000 years history.
4. My View on Higher Education
The following is my ranking of institutions and instruments of higher education.
Rank......Name
1.............Life itself functioning as a university
2.............A Whole Society functioning as a university
3.............Slum Environment functioning as a university
4.............Poverty Area functioning as a university
5.............War-Torn Region functioning as a university
6.............Natural Disaster Area functioning as a university
7.............Holy Books of Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
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Jesus Christ used very simple parables like the one about seeds of mustard. Based on it European philosophy was developed and American technology was deployed.
Yet, they could neither fully and piously explain the truth in the parable nor create any seed from simple atoms and molecules, though the Vatican cannot do, either.
That is why I am telling you to believe the EEE Reporter, since political plots are being defeated in Japan and the Mafia economy is being lost in the U.S.
(There are no universities in Kingdom of God, anyway, since Jesus Christ had never studied abroad in Rome or Alexandria.
Indeed, I recommend you to forget about everything you have ever learnt without faith in school.
Truly, otherwise, you just graduate from Tokyo University to be a TV personality, then a national lawmaker, and eventually a servant of devils.)
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