that was an earlier book on american education, everything from jefferson to do e,ewey, i proud of myself. this is about the odyssey, particularly odysseus as a poet of that epoch. the main thought is that each of those fantastic adventures he tells about is really an imaginative poetic rendering of some ordinary tourists experiences. to give an example, the lotus eaters, some in africa, and his crew, some of them are clearly given drugs of some sort and they don't want to go away, they want to stay and indulge. he makes of that, the story of the lotus eaters, so everything is poet the-that is a collection of essays, the central one of úich is the public. >> why read plato? úy read a republican in 2009? >> the republic turns out to be úe mother of all books. you name it, psychology, politics, education, even sociology, anthropology, that is one reason why we read it, great questions are broached, all the questions are of greatest interest. i would challenge someone to name an important question that one does not find the beginning consideration in the republic. but one reason among a numb

this week when a man from great falls, virginia paralyzed himself while doing flips in the waves at d ewey beach. since ed stead of what focusing on what he lost he is looking to his future and about to take a big leap to the hokey nation. >> nick is very funny, even when he is talking about his devastating injury. >> wasn't the intelligence thing to do but i do a lot of e stju turned out the worst. rse r >> rorr:te>> nick learned tothes mistake he made e at mi made at the beach, a place he still loves and visits. >> i dove in to the ocean and was trying to do a front flip and it worked out less than stellar. >> reporter: he was left paralyzed from the chest down but the injury is not stopping him to pursue his dream to attend virginia tech and become a sports writer. >> i got an early decision and from that point on it is like what do we need to do. >> his parents weren't surprised he wanted to be a hokey. >> i would have before manufacture comfortable with him going to george mason but it wasn't an option for him. >> they don't have football program and he needs to write about football.