To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes:
"Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile;
So ere you find where light in darkness lies,
Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes."
It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
Day By Day
Saturday, October 03, 2009
Must Watch TV -- Michael Sandel
Michael Sandel, legendary instructor at Harvard, has taped his "Justice" course lectures and they will be presented on PBS. These are not to be missed. Read about it here.
Now if they could just talk Greg Mankiew into putting his course on line....