Posted by David Bamford on September 13, 2004 at 23:30:56 from 203.10.110.132 user David.
In Reply to: Re: A Ransome Moment... posted by Charles on September 13, 2004 at 11:41:09:
I recently offered to conduct a course of geology at the local University of the Third Age, generally known as U3A. For anyone not famiiar with this, it is an organisation of volunteers who conduct courses for retirees who still have all their marbles and want to keep them rolling around. I posted a notice asking for expressions of interest. There have been 40 applicants so far! This is the pursuit of knowledge purely for its own sake, with no possibility of [or even a desire for] a career or any monetary gain to follow it. It causes me to wonder; is this desire for knowledge something that one acquires with maturity?
David.