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www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/education/edlife/a-sharper-mind-middle-age-and-beyond.html

A Sharper Mind, Middle Age and Beyond
By Patricia Cohen
New York Times
 
 
 
IN 1905, at age 55, Sir William Osler, the most influential physician of his era, decided to retire from the medical faculty of Johns Hopkins. In a farewell speech, Osler talked about the link between age and accomplishment: The “effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of 25 and 40 — these 15 golden years of plenty.”
 
In comparison, he noted, “men above 40 years of age” are useless. As for those over 60, there would be an “incalculable benefit” in “commercial, political and professional life, if, as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.”
 
Yet it is also true that there is no preordained march toward senescence.
 
As it turns out, one essential element of mental fitness has already been identified. “Education seems to be an elixir that can bring us a healthy body and mind throughout adulthood and even a longer life,” says Margie E. Lachman, a psychologist at Brandeis University who specializes in aging.
 
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A sharper mind, middle age and beyond

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Patricia Cohen
New York Times

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