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88. Ken Burns on Heroism, Horror, and History

People I (Mostly) Admire

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You've Done Something Radical in Your Own Education

As a tea ager, you did something radical in your own education. You chose to attend a brand new, highly experimental college called hampshire college. Could you talk a little bit about that? Yesof god, i'd love to. I do not recognize the human being that started class there on september thirteenth, 19 71. And the human being who graduated in late may of 19 75. It rearranged all my molecules. That i have never lost, that i have never given upthe people who listen to my pa gask regularly know that one of my favorite pastimes is complaining about what we teach and how we teach in the united states.

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