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The Monday Morning Memo

Don Quixote (1925)
by Arthur Ernest Becher.
From the collection of
Roy and Pennie Williams

From Thomas Jefferson to Teddy Roosevelt to John Steinbeck, visionaries have always been attracted to Don Quixote’s pursuit of the impossible dream. Quixote’s Journey is the quest for a better tomorrow.

In Cervantes’ book, “Dulcinea” is just a common village girl named Aldonza Lorenzo who is never even aware that Quixote exists. Yet everything Quixote does is in her name and for her honor.

Dulcinea exists only in his mind.

By the way, “Don Quixote de La Mancha” doesn’t really exist either. He’s just a romantic named Alonso Quijano who dreams of purpose and adventure.

Business is nothing more than a search for purpose and adventure.

Every entrepreneur is Don Quixote. Wizard Academy is a school for entrepreneurs who have Quixote’s ability to see beauty that no one else can see.

And the courage to pursue their dreams.

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“Our posterity will have to make its peace with great new religions. By a religion I mean some body of doctrine that demands acquiescence and conformity by virtually everyone, and which hunts down the non-conformists with righteous fury.

You will not be surprised when I say that one of these new religions, which is already rising to extraordinary power, is Science.

What is Science? The word simply means knowledge but now we use it to signify what experimenters can tell us about the universe in some aspect of its variety. Such knowledge is gained by experiments which confirm hypotheses, and stated very crudely it may be assumed that if an experiment can be carried through a hundred times with the same result, the hypothesis has been shown to be a fact. This of course is totally different from Art, in which nothing is ever precisely the same from one instance to another. The scientific approach to humanity is wholesale; the approach of art, and the art we are talking about here is fiction, is retail. Not masses, but individuals.

I speak of Science as a religion because of the priestlike authority it now assumes in its assertions about many things, and especially about public health. I use the world “priestlike” somewhat sardonically, because we know how brilliantly the priests of past times interpreted history, and especially the history of those who opposed them, to suit their own purposes and support their own doctrines. This was not calculated roguery; all priesthoods are certain that they know the truth and know it is their duty to protect mankind from error.”

- Robertson Davies, The Merry Heart, p. 360

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