Somehow it was about me which is, i think, a tendency of any young person who is 22, but especially someone who comes and does a Service Teaching program that has a year or twoyear stint. And i think, i think that the answer is that people coming in need to be more humble and to do better. I dont think we should justify peoples assumptions about children or about schools under any circumstances. At the same time, i think you have to recognize probably the difficulty for somebody who has no experience both of the south or of poverty or of our Public Schools and doesnt know the craft of teaching. They probably have, as you would know because youve taught, right . They have a lot to learn. And i just hope that people come to schools with humility, understanding that theyre not there to impose their will or vision onto the children or the schools. Made assumptions about the students and their capabilities and it is a recurring issue over time. I want to add something from my city with a 40
Great depression, other gaps we had, and so i started plunging in the collection and i happened upon this is years ago Works Progress administration papers, the wpa in mississippi compiled county histories, and one of the topics was war. Block. They were. That meant there was a lot more out there. In addition to looking at private collection at world war ii started reading county newspapers from all around the state. I did want to try to cover all areas of the state. I have succeeded to some degree but actually not as much as id like to because some towns where i thought there would be letters to the editor about publication from the boys overseas were not any. There could be just to the addition of the paper to get a microfilm that was not the addition that had the letters. The different additions used to be. I do not know if early on if there are two or three editions of the paper. I did the best i could. I found some wonderful letters. I tried to have men who served, i found a lot o
York city was hurtful and helpful to the union you during the civil war, and the positive and negative aspects of studying abroad. Now, thats just a few of the programs youll see on booktv this weekend. For a complete television schedule, go to booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Its television for serious readers. And now we kick off this weekend with a panel on history of civil rights. This is from last months mississippi book festival. [inaudible conversations] welcome, everyone. Im Chris Goodwin with the Mississippi Department of archives and history. F if youve not already, please silence your cell phones. Welcome to the civil rights History Panel number two. Sponsored by the mississippi humanities council. We thank them, we also thank the Mississippi Legislature who lets us hold this book festival in this beautiful state capitol. We could not ask for a grander setting for it. Thank you to the authors, theth panelists. They are all authors. Their books a
9 00 p. M. With Michael Hayden, nsa and cia director, former cia director to discuss National Security on both after words program. And thats followed at 10 00 with the panel on the history of the black power movement. That all happens tonight on cspan2s book tv. Give us some thoughts on what you all did, some of the things you did to create those relationships. Well, one of the things we felt strongly about a need for inclusion, and by that, the president and inviting leaders to the white house, we did that right after 9 11. President bush invite us down, he told us we had to be there at 7 00 in the morning every tuesday and that inclusion created a chemistry among us that allowed us to deal with a real crisis at the time and made a huge difference in the relationships that came from it really made a difference in terms of what we were able to get done. Joint caucuses, opportunities for republicans and democrats to sit together to break together and listen to the leadership together r
Management consulting firms and law mitt romney r firms, and these are in many ways, i call them the baby business elites. They are very, very prestigious position. Also those that involve high levels of economic rewards in terms of salaries. Theyre other types of elites. Im really looking at business elites, so the people who are in the most prestigious and rewarding segments. What kind of parent is a good parent, theyll describe someone exactly like themselves, and i think theres something going on there in terms of when you ask people who are in positions of power in society, what merit, theyll give a definition that it is strikingly similar to whatever they are. Its true in other segments of society as well. We have these similar to me but one thing that contributes. Host walk us through a case study how an elite student gets an elite job. Guest yes, so, in general, the types of occupations im studying, getting entry level job straight out of Business School or law school in an eli