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Inside Putin's Russia; Is China peaking?; Knowledge in the digital age
Fareed Zakaria GPS
The Origins of Knowledge
The first school in a town called Nipur. There are records which show children being taught things and interestingly enough writing them all with their little sharpened squills on tablets of Euphrates mud. They were not only learning things, but they were being sustainable from day one. At some point there is a kind of recognition that this is that there are important bodies of knowledge to pass on You know and therefore the writing is done kind of for posterity very much there. I think that's particularly noticeable Among the Greeks.
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