Monday, April 15, 2013

the Course Cervantes' Don Quixote

Last a few months, I watched the online lectures from Yale's Open course, Cervantes' Don Quixote. The course was taught by Professor Roberto González Echevarría. He is an old gentleman and did a marvelous job telling about the book.

http://oyc.yale.edu/spanish-and-portuguese/span-300

All the lectures we can watch here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-D0iXLZWO0&list=EC4A35EEAEE3880943&index=1

To watch them with transcripts:
http://v.163.com/movie/2011/6/0/F/M83ELFK0R_M83ENE50F.html

The lecture is so wonderful I decided I must read the book to have a better understanding. So I ordered the book from amazon. Now I have finished Part I, both the watching and the reading.

It is true that reading the book Don Quixote is learning about life. I wish I had done this years ago so I could have avoided some mistakes in life. And the lecture is the best addition to reading the book. Without all the background, all the interpretation by the good old professor, I would not have learned so much as I have now.

I think that is the meaning of education. It is to help us make less mistakes in our life and to let us live more happily. The purpose of education is not about what we can do, but about what we can not do in life.

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