How to teach happiness
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/education/2018/07/how-teach-happiness
Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and the Trump Presidency
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/28/us/politics/jared-ivanka-trump.html
Jacob Mikanowski notes:
“From inauspicious
beginnings on the edge of a minor European archipelago, it has grown to vast
size and astonishing influence. Almost 400m people speak it as their first
language; a billion more know it as a secondary tongue. It is an official
language in at least 59 countries, the unofficial lingua franca of dozens more.
No language in history has been used by so many people or spanned a greater
portion of the globe. It is aspirational: the golden ticket to the worlds of
education and international commerce, a parent’s dream and a student’s misery,
winnower of the haves from the have-nots. It is inescapable: the language of
global business, the internet, science, diplomacy, stellar navigation, avian
pathology. And everywhere it goes, it leaves behind a trail of dead: dialects
crushed, languages forgotten, literatures mangled.”