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| Program Number | S0527 |
| Title | A Firing Line Debate: Resolved: That the Feds Should Get Out of Higher Education-Part II |
| PBS Number | 1216 |
| Moderator | Friendly, Fred W., veteran broadcast journalist and executive |
| Host | Buckley, William F. (William Frank), 1925-2008. |
| Guest(s) | 1) Buckley, William F. (William Frank), 1925-2008. - For the Affirmative. "Adviser to Presidents, even some
who don?t want his advice" (according to Fred Friendly's
introduction) 2) Van den Haag, Ernest. - For the Affirmative. Professor of Law and Public Policy at Fordham University 3) Sobran, Joseph. - For the Affirmative. Senior Editor at National Review 4) Brookhiser, Richard. - For the Affirmative. Senior Editor at National Review 5) Giamatti, A. Bartlett. - For the Negative. President of Yale University 6) Botstein, Leon. - For the Negative. President of Bard College 7) Williams, Dennis. - For the Negative. Education Editor at Newsweek 8) Bernstein, Alison. - For the Negative. Ford Foundation executive |
| Taped on | Oct 5, 1982 (Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson,) |
| Broadcast Date | Oct 29, 1982 |
| Duration | 60 minutes (or hh:mm:ss) |
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| Summary | All the participants care passionately about education, but even within the respective teams they agree on little else. Mr. van den Haag goes so far as to entertain the heretical view that a college education is not "absolutely essential if you want to become a good citizen and a productive one." (Mr. Botstein counters that "fewer than 20 per cent of high-school graduates learn any geography, fewer than 10 per cent have a foreign language, and fewer than a third do more than geometry"-which would seem to suggest a remedy other than four years of college.) Good moments, but not the liveliest of these debates. |
| Subject Heading(s) | Higher education and state -- United States. Higher education -- Aims and objectives -- United States. Postsecondary education -- United States. Education, Secondary -- United States. |
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| Transcript | Download transcript (80040_s0527_trans.pdf) |
