Paul Glastris
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
ought to be doing.
Well, first, Victor David Hansen's first book, I think, was about the Greek way of war.
And he wrote quite specifically about the efforts of different Greek city-states to destroy
destroy each other's crops.
And he said, that is almost impossible to do, I know, because I grew up on a farm.
So that story rings true to me.
And I'm sure he found perfectly brilliant young people at Fresno State who probably didn't have the preparation
from their communities and high schools to have read some of these classic texts before.
And for some of them, it was probably mind blowing.
For others, they're there at college just to get ahead, right?
They've gotβthey need to get a good job to rise above their station or at least stay there.
And the classes at these schoolsβlook, there are a lot of schools.
We rank 1,400-plus colleges and universities.
There's a whole bunch at the bottom, right?
And there are all kinds of colleges down there.
that do very, very poorly.
Some of them are for-profits, some of them are art schools, some of them are religious schools, a lot of them are state schools.
It's not like this whole class of colleges is good or bad, but you can find great schools across the country, and especially in certain states like California, like New York, like North Carolina, like Florida.
that have strong centralized systems of governance of their public universities, and that have long, decades-old commitments, political commitments, to keeping costs down, tuition down, for in-state students.
modest and low-income students.