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The College was co-founded in 1990 by Satish Kumar, John Lane, Stephan Harding and others. They were inspired by E.F. Schumacher, the economist, environmentalist and author of Small Is Beautiful. which argued that the growth of capitalism came at a very high human and planetary cost. The first course ran in 1991 with visiting teacher James ...
Satish Kumar (born 9 August 1936) [1] is an Indian British activist and speaker. He has been a Jain monk, nuclear disarmament advocate and pacifist. [3] Now living in England, Kumar is founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College international center for ecological studies, and is Editor Emeritus of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine.
Michael Schumacher. Michael Schumacher ( German: [ˈmɪçaːʔeːl ˈʃuːmaxɐ] ⓘ; born 3 January 1969) is a German former racing driver who competed in Formula One for Jordan, Benetton, Ferrari, and Mercedes. Schumacher has a joint-record seven World Drivers' Championship titles (tied with Lewis Hamilton ); at the time of his retirement ...
Full list. Jonathan Kimble Simmons [1] (born January 9, 1955) is an American actor. Considered one of the most eminent male character actors of his generation, [2] [3] he has appeared in over 200 film and television roles. He is the recipient of various Supporting Actor accolades for his performance as the music instructor Terence Fletcher in ...
Mills College at Northeastern University. / 37.78056°N 122.18306°W / 37.78056; -122.18306. Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, California is part of Northeastern University 's global university system. Mills College was founded as the Young Ladies Seminary in 1852 in Benicia, California; it was relocated to Oakland in ...
Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered is a collection of essays published in 1973 by German-born British economist E. F. Schumacher.The title "Small Is Beautiful" came from a principle espoused by Schumacher's teacher Leopold Kohr (1909–1994) advancing small, appropriate technologies, policies, and polities as a superior alternative to the mainstream ethos of "bigger ...
Early life. Schumacher was born in Bonn, Germany in 1911.His father was a professor of political economy.The younger Schumacher studied in Bonn and Berlin, then from 1930 in England as a Rhodes Scholar at New College, Oxford, and later at Columbia University in New York City, earning a diploma in economics.
He is the author of Physics in Spacetime, [1] a textbook on Special Relativity, and Quantum Processes, Systems, and Information (with Michael Westmoreland), a textbook on Quantum Mechanics. Schumacher is a professor of physics at Kenyon College, a liberal arts college in rural Ohio. He is the lecturer in four courses produced by the Teaching ...