Mzae to get here. Maze. President will be joining us as soon as we get here. Im the education reported at u. S. News. You are at the changing politics of k12 panel discussion. Thank you for being here. E w rankled a pretty awesome panelists tot discuss and answer your pressing questions, because theres nothing really going on in dc, right . I will leave the bio in your programs. I will run down the line. We have lindsey burke. She is the education policy director for the heritage foundation, which were those of you outside the beltway, it is a conservative think tank in washington dc. The president of democrats for education reform. Hes also a civil rights leader. Next in him is marty west, an education professor at Harvard Graduate School of education. He was also previously in education policy advisor to senator lamar alexander, the republican from tennessee, who is the chairman of the Senate Education committee. A quick housekeeping note. This is one of the first panels at ewa. Ewa2
Rarest actually is a german language printing here in the center. There are only two copies of this july 1776 printing of the declaration in german that had survived. This is been shared with us by Gettysburg College in pennsylvania. Its side by side with a salem, massachusetts printing of the declaration. We also explore the promise of equality, so this notion that all men are created equal endowed by their create where certain unalienable rights, thats language that each person has to decide, does that apply to me. So people who wrote those words maybe didntly recognize the revolutionary potential in them. Actually some people like john adams probably did realize that when you declare that all men are created equal, people might say, well what about women . What about enslaved people . Laboring men . We try to explore that story through this wall here where we look at the status of laboring men, of enslaved people, of women. Including abigail adams. More exhibits of the museum of the
Texas. Thank you jim. Id like to start by explaining how i came to write this and why i came to write this. And to that purpose ill read from, initial part of the preface. Im a physicist not a historian but over the years ive become increasingly fascinated by the history of science. My own handwriting is touch on history, its been mostly the modern history of physics and astronomy, roughly from the late 19th century to the present. Although in this era we learned many new things. The goals and since the physical size have not materially changed. The physicist of 1900 were somehow taught todays standard model of cosmology or of elementary particle physicist, they wouldve found much to amaze them at the idea of seeking mathematically formulated and experimentally validated impersonal principles that explain the wide variety of phenomena would have seen quite familiar. A while ago i decided i needed to dig deeper to learn more about an earlier era in the history of science and the goals a
From the traditions of the himalayas and bring them to you in the foothills. And thats where were exploring this whole season of this nature of what it actually is. Is it knowledge, insight, understanding . So with the people from different areas together to have conversations and find out what is wisdom for them. In a few of them will be here on monday to talk about intuition with the psychologist david and an actress who is joining a book about animal wisdom, it the studies of for mobility in the congo and look at their relationships and how they mirror some of ours. And probably not those that be reflected on Television Later tonight. And then its awful to think i hope you can join us on our journey. So one aspect of knowledge that we want to address tonight, it where does it spring from, what is the understanding that makes it go beyond common understanding and knowledge that we possess as a society and what better example to choose from then einstein. They have just come out with