You may think the story of Ivan's brother illuminating - but let's be careful where the light leads us to.
Consider the followings:
- Was happiness the result of poverty ?
- Was greed and other dark characters of human beings caused by affluence ?
Now you see, what the story does is inducing us to have the impression that lack of money would give you satisfaction, and getting rich is a sin. It was Leo Tolstoy who wrote the story and soon afterwards Russia turned a communist country.
And all of a sudden you realize the light is merely
ignis fatuus.
Alas, how about the amount of teaching for our students ?
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