Snow Goose: Canoeing On The Charles River in Wellesley, Massachusetts * * * Practicing A Musical Instrument, became a degree-granting institution in 10 years, would it be possible to then to offer the following free degrees online based on best STEM Creative Commons' 4 licensed OpenCourseWare (now in 4 languages)?

Canoeing on the Charles River in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with old friends was lovely today. There was a Unitarian Universalist church near the place where we put into the river, and I wondered with my friends whether the Transcendentalism of the first part of the 19th century, which I associate with Unitarians (Thoreau, Emerson, Channing, et al.) and other liberal, and related, groups around Concord, Massachusetts, was 'in the air' at that time around here, possibly 25 miles away, as the crow flies, in days when there was only foot, horse, and water travel. {There are often people who are gems in the 'woodwork,' as it is, of such institutions, whom I'm generally interested in meeting}. For example, what Hindu texts - I think these were key influences at this time for Transcendentalism

https://web.archive.org/web/20140301185107/https://pluralism.org/resources/tradition/essays/hindu5.php

 (see - https://pluralism.org/ . . . was: pluralism.org/resources/tradition/essays/hindu5.php) - were they reading, and from where, in general, did they get these texts? Harvard and related universities? England? Universities there? How many Hindus from India were living in the area then? Were there seances, which I know were taking place at the time around here (visit Sturbridge Village, for example)? Were the Taoist writers Laozi and Chuangzi's books in circulation? When did the "Tao te Ching" and "Inner Chapters" first come to America? The weather was perfect, as we paddled up the river, and then paddled, floated and drifted back. The variety of richly green, deciduous trees, with some conifers, along the banks of the river are wondrous, and very familiar (since I was born in the Boston area). And we saw turtles, Canadian geese, and dragonflies, and a beautiful bridge, which looked Japanese to me. * One of my friends, who is around 70 - both a medical doctor and a professor - practices a musical instrument, a horn, daily. I delight in both my friend's settledness, the music I heard him play, as well as his focus. He plays regularly, plays in a group - so his music is social, and harmony is possible - and he has a horn teacher. There's an orderliness to his life, as well, which complements his musical, and other, focuses. He practices (scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm) around 45-60 minutes a day. He's also a kind person. ** If World University and School became a degree-granting institution in 10 years, would it be possible to then ... ? Snow Goose Landing on water? :)

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Free Degrees / Credit[edit]

OCW Audio Video Courses: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/

Admissions at World University and School: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School

Conference Method of Teaching and Learning: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning

The College at World University and School: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School

Ph.D. Degrees at World University and School: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Ph.D._Degrees_at_World_University_and_School

World University Law School: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School

World University Medical School: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School

World University Music School: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Music_School

WUaS International Baccalaureate Diploma and Programme: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme
(beginning with United Nations' languages - Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, (German too), Russian, Spanish)

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