one she said, it open itself up to the notion that you have a lot to learn and do not know close to an infinite. a sense of ignorance feels the desire to overcome it. humility is a prerequisite for being educated. these were the words that were delivered to the freshman class and think in the fall of 1964 at bryn mawr college, by the president of the college, who had been there for decades, and it would think, who is this old lady except i would never forget those old words that she delivered to us. because, it seems to me to be such a foundational part of learning, to say the i don t know if things. i tried to make a during my presidency at harvard. let s all open ourselves and practice humility. i think every aspect of life is well served by picking up the position in relation to everything around you.
trees survived for a reason. i believe that is a powerful symbol of what we can and will do to get through this crisis. for this, for as long as it takes, we ll be with you, the whole country will be with you. we will be respectful of the sacred grounds and traditions and have it built the way that the people of now want a bill, not the way that other people or it build. we won t rebuild the way that now it wants to rebuild. you know, it will be hard. america s deadliest wildfire and almost a century, jill and i have what is left of what we surveyed the damage from here in the air as well. the devastation is overwhelming. today, 114 dead, hundreds of people unaccounted for. the biden administration has already proved more than $8 million in assistance to nearly 2500 families, including a
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little girl. no one betting on people would have bet that she would become the first woman president of harvard university or even that harvard would ever have a woman president. harvard is now a month away from inaugurating its second woman president, professor claudine gay, the daughter of haitian immigrants. in her new book, now professor drew gilpin faust writes, for many white southerners of my generation, a life defining question has been how long it took us to notice the contradictions between the democratic and christian ideals intoned in church and school and the patterns of injustice in which our lives were invaded. when did the contradictions become troubling? when did they become unbearable? what was the moment of epiphany? for drew, the epiphany came when she was nine years old, on february 12th, 1957, she wrote a letter, there mr. eisenhower,
the point? i worry deeply about what kind of country we can be? what kind of people we can be if we don t amid that learning is meant to expand us and lead us to ask questions, to find books that maybe our parents never read or approved of. certainly, if my parents approved of everything i did, there would be no letter to eisenhower. i don t know who i would be. i would have to make trouble to get to where i could have access to a wide world. drew gilpin faust, the book is necessary trouble. please, yourself this book. you owe every student this book. it s a harvard professors book, but look, it s not a big, thick thing. the kids can have a fun summer weekend with this. [laughter] thank you very much for joining us. really an honor. thank you, lawrence. thank you. we ll be right back. l be right back.