Paul Glastris
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 31 Aug
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They graduate at higher rates than you would expect.
given their demographics.
They earn more than you would expect given their demographics.
And a lot of these kids, some of them anyway, go back to work and they stay in the area.
They don't jet off to New York or whatever.
They stay there in the Central Valley for the most part.
And some of them go back to become managers of the agricultural firms where they used to pick crops, right?
That's what higher education at its best,
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 got—they need to get a good job to rise above their station or at least stay there.
And the classes at these schools—look, there are a lot of schools.
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