I was recently interviewed by the founder of the marvelous Online Great Books program, Scott Hambrick. He talked to me about the childhood events that triggered my lifelong interest in education, education’s problems and their roots, why reading Great Books is hard and how that can be mitigated, my encounters with Ayn Rand including her request to forgive her, and our new Leap Year program.
You can hear it all at the Online Great Books on the web, iTunes, YouTube and elsewhere.
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