- i will try to avoid the word rarely hit -- revelation -- you are really leaving everything up to tyche, the goddess of chance, and i really do not think it is an intellectual improvement. >> do you reach into history to find comfort from an individual -- churchill or lincoln. among those are good places for conferred. others your region to to find a lesson of keep your dagger loose in your scabbard -- >> caesar. >> more than one lesson to get out of history and it never actually add up. anybody who thinks you can read history and "find the answer" is deluding himself. but if you look at it and say i can read history and find metaphors that may help me lead me to a better answer is quite useful. >> in your historical world, education did not seem to be a problem. but education is a huge problem today and every it danced country is having difficulty teaching its kids. in my generation there was not the difficulty. but in this generation it is a difficulty. and it is true in every advanced country essentially, except with -- for those with very strong influence or recently strong church i