The title of my book is why teach in defense for a real education. That is a really hard question i would like to put on the shelf for a while. But in defense for a real education, thats why i want to try to work with a little bit. So let me ask this question what is this thing a real education . And i want to say against the disposition of the culture at large a lot of fellow scholars from the university of this point it is humanities based. The real the education is a humanities based education. Why . First of all the humanities based education is conducive to the development of citizens. Conducive to the development of citizens. Our founder Thomas Jefferson wanted to create a university that would help people become citizens independent republic. Its one of the reasons he brought us the university of virginia and one of the reasons we are here. It seems to me that there is no better preparation for becoming a citizen for the United States of america or citizen of the world than a hu
Hello and welcome to tonights program in the Commonwealth Club of california. My name is kevin omalley, chairman of the business and leadership format the club and host for tonight. Our program tonight, food fights for the 21st century, women voices driving change. Our panelist are dab a coons garcia, director of symphony for the soil. Mrs. Honeycutt, executive director of moms across america. Judy shields, executive director of teams turning green and our moderator is cindy dames, c. E. O. Of text talk studio and moms determined. Now ill turn the program over to christy dames. Thanks to the Commonwealth Club. We appreciate being here tonight and im excited to have these three powerful women, some moms, some not. Powerful women, all the same. Tonight we have a program about food and whats happening with our food. Im asking my first question of Deborah Coons garcia. You have two major awardwinning films and have been a filmmaker since 1970 and are quite the vocal activist and speaker an
Joining us at the Washington Convention center is will bunch. Here is his book, after the ivory tower falls, how college broke the american dream. That is a lot of subtitle. I wrote it myself. You can blame me. Before we get into your book, who should go to college and who should not . Any review. In your view. I frame it more as Higher Education, because i think Everybody Needs to continue with education after 18. It does not always have to be what we call college in the traditional sense. Some people want to develop certain skills. I think there is a need for free trade schools, internships. I talked in the book about the idea of a gap year for 18yearolds of national service, but the idea is we should not throw our young people to the world at age 18. I feel like we made things very hard for our young people. The people who are inclined to go to college have to make such difficult decisions at age 18 about whether they are going to the right school, the pressure to pick the right fie
Should not . Any review. In your view. I frame it more as Higher Education, because i think Everybody Needs to continue with education after 18. It does not always have to be what we call college in the traditional sense. Some people want to develop certain skills. I think there is a need for free trade schools, internships. I talked in the book about the idea of a gap year for 18yearolds of national service, but the idea is we should not throw our young people to the world at age 18. I feel like we made things very hard for our young people. The people who are inclined to go to college have to make such difficult decisions at age 18 about whether they are going to the right school, the pressure to pick the right field of study at such a young age, and then how are they going to pay for it . Is it worth it . If the only way they can get a diploma is to borrow 30,000 or 40,000, is that worth it . You dont always know that at age 18 right away. The people her saying maybe i should not go