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POPSFamous Home Schoolers funny how so many of the people from the past that we admire were at least partially educated outside of the public school system
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POPSTolstoy & Gandhi: Two Giants Bound By Pacifism
Enlightening account of the relationship between Tolstoy & Gandhi "In South Africa, Tolstoy's writings landed on the desk of a young Indian dissident, Mahatma Gandhi. He was overwhelmed, declaring that after reading Tolstoy his "lack of faith in non-violence vanished." He hung a picture of Tolstoy on his office wall and named the camp where he trained activists in peaceful resistance Tolstoy Farm. Gandhi wrote five letters to Leo Tolstoy and received four in return, all glowing with praise and intellectual exchange. In his last letter, written in September 1910 only weeks before his death, Tolstoy told Gandhi that his activity was "the most central and important of all the work now being done in the world." Years later, Gandhi repaid the compliment, writing that he knew of no one "in India or anywhere else who has had as profound an understanding of nonviolence as Tolstoy had." Tolstoy had inspired Gandhi's legendary instruction to "be the change you want to see in the worl
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POPSMUSHARRAF: THE TOLSTOY OF THE ZULUS It would be interesting if my lefty friends would respond in point instead of with "she wears short skirts and she's mean" sort of comments. But alas, you can't make a liberal really discuss anything, so here goes: Ann is hotter than Hillary! Booyah!
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POPSDeathbed Qoutes I only clipped the ones I liked (or understood :P) there are more at the source.
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POPSLibrivox - Free Audio Books Librivox has over 300 totally free audio books in the public domain. Volunteers read classic works by authors such as Mark Twain, Jane Austen, Dickens, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, etc., etc., etc.
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