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CL 2006 George Walker 'Education for the nation and the world"
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
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Length: 00:59:00
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Mr. Walker feels that international education is one way that all people can begin to understand each other's needs so that we can begin to co operate to solve the world's problems.
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David Swatling
Posted on May 09, 2007 at 01:58 AM | Permalink
Review of CL 2006 George Walker 'Education for the nation and the world"
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!