Dull, Dull, Dull. Now that I've got that out of my system, why? George Walker is an extremely intellegent, eloquent and sometimes even engaging speaker (when he ventures off the well-crafted pages from which he reads). His ideas about education are important and he presents them with an array of fascinating quotes by great thinkers: Montaigne, Rousseau, Dickens, Emerson, Ghandi, Friedman, to name just a few. Historical and contemporary anecdotes abound.

And yet less than half-way through I checked the time to see how much longer I'd be forced to endure this lecture. I'm not opposed to the format of one person speaking for an hour to a room full of eager listeners. But unless you have a particular interest in this subject, I defy you to stay engaged until the end. Recorded last year on the 4th of July, don't expect any fireworks!