you were a harvard law professor.hen you go to harvard law school and you are at the top of your class, you start there is always an intimidation factor. 600 people, you have to figure out if you are going to be good. when did you realize you were good at law school, taking exams? did you know right away you're going to be a great law school student and potentially became a professor? or were you nervous the first year or so? justice breyer: [laughs] pretty nervous. i remember talking to a friend of mine that i was an undergraduate with. we both said this is the end of our great careers after our first year. and we both did pretty well. david: you were in the harvard law review and sometimes you get the clerk on the supreme court and you clerked for -- justice breyer: arthur goldberg. david: what was that like? justice breyer: he was great. he had loads of energy. jack kennedy said he was the smartest man he ever met. david: you clerked for him and then you went to teach at harvard law school. justice breyer: that's r

you are a harvard law professor. i'm curious, when you go to harvard law school and you are at the top of your class, when you start harvard law school, there is always kind of an intimidation factor. you have 600 people. are you when to be good or not? when did you realize you were good at law school things, taking exams? did you know right away you were going to be a great loss will student and become a potential law school professor? or were you nervous the first year or so? >> i got pretty nervous. i remember talking to a friend of mine. i had been an undergraduate with him and he was there too. we both said, this is the end of our great career. after our first year. we both did pretty well in law school. >> you are in the harvard law overview. sometimes you get the clerk on the supreme court for another justice. you clerked for? >> arthur goldberg. it was terrific. he was great. he was an enthusiast. he had loads of energy. jack kennedy said he was the smartest man he ever met. >> then you went to teach at harva

they're like, oh my kids to go to harvard. oh, you don't want your kids to go to harvard. it's just like a name. they can go to any other university and it will be fly in. again. i got it out of my sister in law. oh, everyone running around with the books going to the class. and i'm going to write comedy. when i tell people, yeah, i'm writing comedy at harvard to like what? and then have to explain it to you and i was trying to make use of them and couldn't do it. so now i'm doing it through comedy. i'm so anxious to say that job and i left that on the conflict in a loony harness. the humans b o, the initial re, i had this as you, but i had a lot of data. fair sound, greenville clone with the lawful in envy. and oh, and my i went to sleep anonymous. i woke up the next day, my phone was exploding all over the arab media zone is propose is made of haven't been so my only oh yeah. with the 1st jewish comedian ever come to the stage here at the $1001.00 left comedy festival. so please help me welcome to i gave her arabic name, please on my welcome to the stage, and now i'm is

i met a man named stephen breyer who was a law professor at harvard. thought that he would be an academic arrest of his life but he became a justice of the supreme court and has been in that role for 27 years. i recently had a conversation about his future and the future of the supreme court. i have to start with the questions on everybody's mind. why is this book that you have just written so small? why is this book so small? >> this is the constitution. it is smaller. >> a lot of supreme court justices carry around the constitution a lot. is that because you're going to forget what is in their? -- there? >> you never know what somebody is going to ask. they expect you to know what every article says. david: your book, this book is an interesting book in the sense that it came from a series of lectures you gave named after somebody who was an ideological opponent of justice scalia. were you a friend of his even though you had ideological differences? >> yes. i think so. we would debate those differences. i thought we had a terrific debate in texas. th

you're looking here at early plans of harvard. like the houses and outbuildings of yankee farms their buildings were generally arranged close enough for convenient communication although separated for protection and differentiation of purpose. they were also small enough to finance and build without too much difficulty. like yale, and princeton, harvard began as a divinity school across the charles river next to a small village west of boston. adjacent to its common and chapels. it grew as an unplanned arrangement of detached georgian buildings populated with trees. these early schools, harvard, 1836, will -- excuse me, 1636, yale, 1717, princeton, 1795, they possessed what might be described as kind of a loose fit formality. unlike oxford or cambridge where the majority of early american ecclesiastes and clerics were educated, in the new world, unconstrained by property, ownership, surrounded by lots of space, these new institutions were simply georgian buildings place income the open, augmented by freestanding buildings. yale, f

well, it used to be hard, but now harvard getting in harvard has announced that no standardized test requirements for the next 5 upcoming classes will be required. we will tell you why and if other schools will follow. and sadly, we are continuing to see the numbers once again of a horrible disease which became worse under the pandemic. all made illegal by state government in order to help people cope with a pandemic, a predictable outcome, which is sadly will cost lives. i'm sco hughes in these stories and more on today's news news use right here on our t america. ah . one year ago president joe biden told the american people this we could join forces stopped shouting and lower the temperature. for without unity, there is no peace. only bitterness and fury, no progress. only exhausting outrage. no nation. only a state of chaos, however, guessed that unity does not include those who do not follow every order of the white house as this was the message sent on monday, by the, by the white house for the unvaccinated. your looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, y

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the founding of harvard's department of topical medicine, the second in the united states, the firstwas at tulain university. rolo was the son of a paramount chief in liberia, worked his way to america on a boat, educated at school for boys in massachusetts and went on to become under graduate at harvard university in the 19 teens. became a strong voice for the indigenous people at the time when the united states was assisting the lie beern , liberian government on cruel suppression on the west coast of africa. he helped to break many arrangements from the eight member team at harvard, led by richard strong and if you look at the photos, strong is the second person from the right seated in the picture, but wolough would be largely erased from the official expedition record as many go-betweens were. the man who entered the frame at the end of the clip is max thyler. thyler would go on to win the noble prize for development of yellow fever vaccine, work that was tied to the harvard expedition to liberia so i began to ask, what was this expedition about? and what i came to learn was a c

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you are looking here early plans of harvard.like the houses and outbuildings of yankee farms, their buildings are generally arranged close enough for convenient communication. although sufficiently separated for protection and differentiation a purpose. they're also small enough to finance and build without too much difficulty. like yale and princeton, harvard began as a divinity school across the charles river, extra small village west of austin. adjacent to the commons and chapel. it grew as an unplanned arrangement of detached georgian buildings around open yards, populated with trees. these early schools, harvard 1836, william and mary, 18 -- excuse me, 16 36, william and mary 16 95, yale 1770, princeton 1795, they possess what me described as a loose fit formality. and like oxford or cambridge, where there is a majority of ecclesiastics and intellectuals and politicians were educated, these were plainly jack could be in and georgian courts with arcades and towers and quadrangles formed by conjoined buildings. in the new wor

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how do people get into schools like harvard? well, that's exactly it. in the interest of disclosure, i did not get into harvard when i applied back in the late and i did apply, but i did apply. yeah, yes, i guess i did apply, but the reality is right, this is, this is the real problem here, right? this is, you know, we, we've been moving, we were moving as a society in order to combat historical inequities in our society. we tried to move towards a way of objectively measuring and being able to objectively compare one student to the other. now we're moving away from that. here's, here's what we know. this is one of the great problems and especially looking if someone who is applying to colleges my, my one child is this year, it essentially becomes a gamble. i'm going to use the phrase a crapshoot on because there is no way for a student who might be applying to one of these schools to really figure out if they have a shot at getting in. and that does a real disservice to those students as well. because it big, it comes down to these intangibles. now uni

when students apply to harvard, they're applying to other ivy league schools.e interesting to see what's happening. i bet in every state there are meeting thinking about what they're going to do. >> so, jeff, think about your experience, that you were there watching over the shoulders of admissions officers at three different schools. how much would it have changed what you witnessed if there were no standardized tests that they were relying on? >> well, we're going to find out this year, michael, because i'm going back into the schools for the paperback version of the book. in the meantime, the applicant pool would have been different. in fact, many of the admissions deans that i profiled in the book told me that last year. that students don't apply to some schools if they think their s.a.t. or a.c.t. score is not going to get them in. all of the schools advertise a score. if it's below that average. to them, it's a flashing red sign, don't apply here. so their application never even arrives. so, i think the big difference would have been -- they would be look

i then went to harvard.take the class i believe you teach now economics among others i was a biology major. i studied microbiology is mostly a nerdy science guy through college. i then when i i graduated i got into the world of a biotech investing. in the fall 2007 just before the 2008 financial crisis which i will say also t dramatically shape my views of not only capitalism but the merger of capitalism and politics one of the core themes of the book. anyway, did that for several years, for seven years. i toldbo my boss as i was going to leave and go to gill law school because i had this itch at the intersection of law and philosophy had never fully scratched for icr it turns out that got me some career mobility instead. that said you could manage a portfolio for us to do it from yale. that's what i did and i spent three years there, met my wife. probably the most productive thing that came out of it she was my next-door neighbor ahmad school she was. anyway when i graduated came back to my job as an invest

while at harvard, he became a strong voice for the rights of liberia's indigenous peoples, at a time when the united states was assisting the liberian government in a brutal suppression of a crew rebellion in liberia on the west coast of africa. he had helped to broker many of the arrangements for the eight-member team from harvard, which was led by richard strong, and if you look at the photos, strong is the second person from the right seated, in the picture. but [inaudible] would be largely erased from the official expedition record as many go betweens were. the man who entered the frame in the clip at the very end was max thyler. here he is standing second from left. he would go on to win the nobel prize for the development of yellow fever vaccine, work that was tied to the harvard expedition to liberia. i began to ask what was this expedition about? the expedition i came to learn was a complete biological and medical survey of liberia, undertaken at the very moment in which firestone tire and rubber company was trying to bring closure to a deal with a liberian government nor a 9

and yale where the students that are not going to go to harvard and apply because that adds another rejection that makes them more exclusive and unethical wasting people's time and money and leading them on to something they will not be offered by the university but it's increasing the ranking systems. >> what was your college experience, and would you do it different today? >> i went through the regiment and then the graduate school at a large public university, taughtht at the institutions and see some differences between them. i offered the same advice to think about it strategically. pick a major early on based on what you think is going to be suited not because you're just trying to discover yourself or find a new path or hobby in life. think of the way to get through college efficiently and to try to knock the general education requirements out of the way. these are major contributors to the cost of college today so you are spending 1.5 to two years of your college experience taking jen ed classes. you start continuing the dual credit enrollment that means you enter into colle

i mean i, i was a young student at harvard, i was involved in harvard divestment campaign. and in, you know, we are trying for a long time and, and the other thing you learn from that struggles, it takes a while. you know, it doesn't happen over night. you have to keep building the pressure and you have to keep transferring it. but my, my alma mater harvard, did divest in fossil fuels or is beginning that process. no such luck for long time on south africa. you know, and so you see changes happening and, and, you know, i, i, i have to taken a lot of good heart from the privilege of my experience with, with, with south african and see. and the, and the, and the movement there. so take heart takes awhile, maybe the one last thing i would add is the critical importance of ensuring that all it is instance to the fossil fuel in the sea and other industries that have driving us to tie with destruction needs to be peaceful. i think that the people in certain governments and in certain indices that are banking on the anger and the disappointment that the young people and others are

it's happening at places like harvard where there is an underrepresentation. and you know, then given the pandemic we have declining enrollment in these colleges and again financial crisis so i think the continuity of this is for of the most devastating to me and it really picks up as you go. by the end it becomes so clear that we need reparations for institutions of higher education. i had a doctoral student who tried for months to access files on the history of two hbcus for southern women. the responses to the racial justice system because the archives of those colleges were so much more just accessible. they had more resources and staff to be able to get. there are so many ways in which this affects colleges that we don't even see. in contrast, i remember from the development office saying we are about to do a capital campaign. what should we ask for. what they don't say in the book is one of the mandates about a percentage of donations to other colleges to say whatever donations you get you have to donate to an open enrollment college or hcb you because t

the assistant coach of debate at harvard university and founder of the nationally acclaimed harvard debate counsel. in 2020 he was recognized on the under 30 list as well as one of theos most influential in 2020. born and raised the only thing she loves moree than an adventue is a good story about one after graduating from college she wrote tontine men touring and was in asia for a few years before returning full time. full-time. her acclaimed novel includedd hr debut clean getaway. they will be discussing ms. educated that recounts the extraordinary journey from a tumultuous abusive upbringing and as an 18-year-old college dropout to his current role at harvard university and founder of thehe diversity project and a pipeline program of the harvard debate counsel so for three consecutive years since the inception in 2017, every covert trained by fleming as one the debate competition. i'm very pleased to turn things over tope the speaker. >> that might have been a mistake now but it's okay. first of all because you had kind of a release party. i disagree with that and i will continue but if

when you go to harvard law school and you are the top of your class.re is an intimidation factor. you have to figure out are you going to be good or not. when did you realize you are good at law school kind of things? did you know you are going to be a great law school student and become a potential law school professor? or your nervous the first year or so -- were you nervous the first year or so? >> i talked with someone who was with me in undergrad. we both had great careers after our first year. >> you are in the harvard law review, sometimes you get to clerk on the supreme court for another justice and you clerked for -- >> grover. >> what was that like? >> jack kennedy said he was the smartest man he ever met. >> you went to teach at harvard law school. did you say this is going to be my life? nothing terrible about that. or did you say, maybe someday i will be on the supreme court, a judge? >> i thought maybe someday. anybody who thinks maybe someday , i do not want to say there is something wrong with it, but there is something wrong with it. >

students they're never intending to take so harvard, princeton, gayle and you harvard, princeton or yalep apply that's one more rejection it makes it more exclusive. it's an extremely unethical act it's wasting people's time, wasting their money, leading them on increase the prestige of the university and the ranking systems. >> what was your college experience would you do it differently today? >> i went to a small liberal arts college for undergraduate. graduate school phd and a large public university taught at both types of institutions. i see some similarities some differences i offer the same advice into the high school students when i talk to them today, think about it strategically. pick a major base out what you think will be suited and trying to discover yourself are trying to find a new path, hobby or consumption in life. in other words, think a way to get to college efficiently. one thing i would have done is continuing in the community college credit not the general education requirements out of the way. what we will find is these are the major contributor to the cost of col

and princeton niguel love it when students that are probably not going to get intoad harvard princeton yale apply so that's another rejection that makes them more -- it's wasting peoples time and wasting their money and leading them onto something that's not going to be offered by the university to increase the prestige of the university to game these ranking systems. >> what which are college experienced and would you do a different late today? i did graduate school at a large public university taught at those types of institutions and i see some similarities and some differences between m them. i offer the same advice that they did that they did a high school student when i talked to them today is to think about it strategically pick a major early on and take a major based on what you think is going to be suited to making a career in not because you are just trying to discover yourself are trying to find a new path or hobby for life. in other words think of way to get through college efficiently. one thing i would have done in high school i would have taken more dance placement class

it had the traditional school environment my background is in economics education policy at harvard. that's really where i became interested in freedom and alternatives to school and educational entrepreneurship. coming up with new learning models for new ways to meet the demand the parents have. >> is that your children have beenen c homeschooled is there a difference? >> the difference is that homeschooling and un- schooling are both alternatives to school outside of a conventional classroom. with un- schooling it's focused think of un- schooling is changing education including split home methods homeschooling instead of the stereotypical version of homeschooling rate might have a parent sitting on a kitchen table the textbook instead of replicating school at home i challenge that a little bit in this book the practice we do not need to replicate school at home even homeschooling models i encourage children's national curiosity and creativity. and as a parent connect their interest and passions in your kids naturally have two available community resources and base it around them. >