but i think -- i mean, finley was a journalist for a while. as you know, many people, and i would put myself in this category, turned to the sports page before we turn to the news page. there is a reason for it. the other aspect of sports is it inspires these wonderful local loyalties. we all have our team. how terrific that is. we also respect the other's. if you can teach respect, i think we would be a long way down the line. >> i am with the trinity forum. i wanted to ask you more particularly about the role you saw between the humanities and civility and how the humanities can be used to increase stability. why do you think it is that faculty politics are so noted for their nastiness? [laughter] first -- an aspect that i consider a minor aspect of the humanities as well as civility are things like etiquette. but the real aspect to civility is whether one is interested in the other person, the other society, the other circumstance. and so it is engagement. it is respect for engagement. hopefully, with a little bit of curiosity. i think curi

. >> finley lewis. >> to follow up on that congressional report. [inaudible] that is a basic foot hold that the congress has in elementary and second grade -- and secondary school education. as a matter of public policy, if you were in congress, how would you use the reauthorization of that bill to deal with some of the problems you are discussing today? >> first, i would like to stress i am a little beyond the presumption of advising another member of congress. i do my best not to. all i can tell you is that i think we have no choice but to put massive new attention at the youngest levels of education in america today. it is back to this question -- all the studies that have ever been done -- if you cannot read by the age of 10, you have a 10 or 15 times greater chance of ending up in jail. i think we really have to recognize that we have to start at the beginning. we also have to acknowledge there are some things our society has done better than we might suspect. community colleges are something no society ever had. we need them for a variety of

but i think -- i mean, finley was a journalist for a while. as you know, many people, and i would put myself in this category, turned to the sports page before we turn to the news page. there is a reason for it. the other aspect of sports is it inspires these wonderful local loyalties. we all have our team. how terrific that is. we also respect the other's. if you can teach respect, i think we would be a long way down the line. >>

if i call finley's country evil, what's finley going to respond? is he going to reform or is he going to snap back? there are aspects of this that happen all the time. i might just say and i'll just conclude with this that i think it's to be topical of the month. it's important for the supreme court of the united states to protect uncivil speech. but it's important for the public to filter it. but it's also important for the supreme court of the united states not to allow corporate speech to drown out citizen views. i am one of the that thinks it's a matter of civility. when a court rules we're going to have an american political system that's going to have an enlarged role for corporate citizens. and what we have to have is a political system in which citizens can speak their views with great vigor. in fact, argumentation is a social good. and you can't block tyranny or dogmatism without argumentation. but how you argue is a civil concern. and we're going to have to think this through from a legal system as well as from a circumstance of individua

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. -- kathy finley. brady. >> we remember our friends and family in the advance security surface, third floor. robert westbury. larry turner. norma johnson. robert demaster. my uncle, hardly cottingham. >> visitor to the second floor, we remember scott williams. >> we remember our friends and family in the american child develops center, second floor. carlton smith. chase smith. blake kennedy. wanda howell. kevin. kevin garrett. tyler santores. brenda daniels. >> my sister, jaycee ray. antonio and sarah cooper. >> anthony christopher cooper. his mother, dana cooper. zachary taylor chavez. my big sister, bailey allman. >> remember our friends and family in the general services administration, first floor. stephen curry. >> where remember our friends and family in social security administration, first floor. sharon chesnutt. stephen williams. julie welch. my husband, robert walker. luther trainer. michael thompson. charlotte thomas. amelio tapia. julie mitchell. irwin miller. courtney mcgraven. rev. gilber