Brian lamb why are they named after sidney hook . David brooks because he was a reflective philosopher. I was at stanford at the Hoover Institution and we had coffee and cookies. And there was one table where the economists sat, milton friedman. And the other was sidney hook. And i got to choose which table to sit at. I remember one time, he explained the problem of evil over about three hours. Six or seven or eight of us just listening to him. He is an exemplar of a person who is passionately engaged in politics but also reflective and well educated. If the news is here, sidney hook was up here. The idea was to lift us up from the day to day flow of events. And so it seemed to me he was someone with celebrating, so i named it or him. Named it after him. Brian lamb you talked for three hours but what was his basic point about evil and god . David brooks people have wrestled with this problem, why does a benevolent god allow children to die . If he solved that one, then he deserves immo
And ready to go, so let me ask you to start things off. All right, thank you michael. Do we have five hours . [laughter] i want to take this paragraph or two and pull it apart. One of the wonderful things about writing a book about the great gatsby is that i can purchase assume pretty much assume, as i think andrew can that were speaking to an audience who has read the novel at least at some point in their lives. So im going to read from the first chapter where nick decides to go visit his cousin Daisy Buchanan who he hasnt seen in a while. Hes invited for dinner, and he walks into the buchanan mansion. With tom buy canna who has to be one of the greatest characters in literature. We walked through a high hallway into a bright, rosycolored space, fragilely bound into the house by french windows at eitherrened. The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh glass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house. A breeze blew through the room blew curtains in at one e
Violent home books were a never ending source of inspiration a way to provide meaning to life at difficult times. One special teacher she says, mrs. Belton helped shanna develop her passion. She says she taught me it was possible to read and write my way into another life. Thats a pretty good description of education in general. Today miss peeples passiones that onto her students. They pour their stories onto the page and she tells them everyone has a voice, everyone has a story worth sharing. They discover their experiences arent so singular, that whether theyre an eat openian refugee or never set foot out of texas theyre not so different and not so alone as a consequence. Shanna works hard to earn and keep their trust and help them find new ways to grow ak academically academically, to reach for their future. In a sense i sell hope she says. I love that line. In a sense i sell hope. And her students are hungry for hope. Most kids are hungry for hope. Since shanna arrived there five y
Major networks where they were watching it in new york called down to the capitol and had Staff Reporters and producers go down on the grass to watch it happen. Do you all not monitor social media . Is twitter like a new thing for you . I mean this stuff is out there. Try google alert. Its there. If its a he no the showing up on the radar, it was showing up on the medias radar and i dont understand why you arent able to pick up that sort of signal. Because if you say that theres never any exposure in advance we got to become more technically savvy. If you can truly have somebody read a story online, get it to the appropriate person in new york, send a producer erproducer, she walks down on the grass and watches it land and you all have billions of dollars billions and you dont see a dude in a gyrocopter flying over we deal with this on the border every single day. If i got customs and Border Patrol up here they would tell you about how theyre detecting these. Theyll tell you how the in
Class learners is our mission and we answer it in our classrooms every day. Thank you secretary duncan for your advocacy of authentic learning and service for our students and your support of teacher leadership. Thank you to my wonderful family. Im nothing without you. Thank you to kayla, my student to the texas delegation and to my administrators. [ applause ] finally, thank you to the talented passionate and remarkably goodlooking group of state teachers of the year with whom i am privileged to join today. Each of them is a study in excellence and each of them is a representation of what a great teacher is. I am honored to stand here today. As a teacher of refugee students, i have been privileged to see Public Education through the eyes of students from countries as diverse as berm a, somalia, iraq, and cuba. Being here today makes me think of my student. She was a shy teenage girl who had little formal schooling and much suffering in her native berma. One day a snowstorm shut down t