know who is living and who was dead, and schopenhauer and einstein and all of those and greece and rome, even if they are not in those fields but they want to know about that? are you worried about that? what are you doing about it? >> you want students to study history and literature and philosophy, and to ask the questions about what life is about. the best education, quite frankly, has to be that broad education. >> it is not about training or technical education. >> it is the humanities and the arts. those things are very important. >> we have reduced our education courses by 25% so our students can take more courses in the arts and sciences. >> let us thank our panel. [applause] i hope everyone sees that there are fantastic agents for change sitting here. being the optimist that i am, i think we can expect tremendous improvements as we move forward in this very technically complicated business of education. think you for being here. [applause] h[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> coming up, weekly addre

the headquarters of the institution still is in rome. we need to understand something about the social realities the church leaders are tripping across on their way to work every day. every 10 years, the pew. go around to -- or around the world and ask people to talk about their values. one question is always, how important is religion to you? these are the percentages that said religion is very important. indonesia, the world's largest muslim nation -- and we will not be able to get to islam tonight, but one of the analytical mistakes we often make is that we always see it through the prism of arab culture. only 25% of the world's moslems are actually era. 95% of the population of indonesia said religion is very important. in nigeria, the population is split almost on the middle between muslim and christian. 92% of the population said religion is very important. guatemala is latin america's first majority protestant state. 80% of the population said religion is very important. in the u.s., almost 60% of our population said the religion

an estimated 15,000 roman catholic priests rallied in rome today. the clerics began gathering early in the day in vatican square for an evening service. it celebrated the end of the church's "year of the priest." the rally was a show support for pope benedict xvi, he's been under fire for his handling of sex abuse allegations against clerics. the city of chicago celebrated today-- winning pro hockey's stanley cup for the first time in 49 years. the chicago blackhawks downed the philadelphia flyers four to three in overtime last night to win the best-of-seven title series, four games to two. also today, the n.c.a.a.banned the university of southern california from postseason play for two years. an investigation found former runningback reggie bush received improper benefits. a number of victories involving bush will be wiped out, including a national title win over oklahoma in 2005. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to jim. >> lehrer: next, the world cup of soccer in south africa. a star-studded cast took the stage at the orlando s

>> safer: and while in rome, arguing with the italians, cameron had a vision, literally. >> cameron:was sick with a high fever, and had a dream of this kind of chrome, metallic death figure coming out of fire, kind of a skeletal robot, if you will. so i woke up with that image in mind, did some drawings, and then constructed a story around that image. >> safer: that dream image became the terminator. the movie put cameron on the map, though his star, arnold schwarzenegger, was not the studio's first choice. >> arnold schwarzenegger: i'll be back >> cameron: the head of orion, who were going to release the film, called me up and said, "are you sitting down?" "i've cast this movie." i was at a party, and it's, "are you sitting down? it's o.j. simpson for the terminator." and i said, "this is the stupidest idea i've ever heard," you know. i didn't know o.j. simpson, i had nothing against him personally. i didn't know he was going to go murder his wife later and become the real terminator, you know. >> safer: in recent years, he's made underwater documentaries on the "titanic" and the ge

. >> last year there were a series of options -- meetings going on in the situation rome, with is note a firing offense? >> again, i think that the magnitude and grave nature of the mistake here are profound. the president took everyone to task less " let -- last year for, as you said, coming out of those meetings. saying that there's a reason they are not had in starbucks. they are in the situation room. he takes this seriously because we have life-and-death decisions being made to put people in harm's way. we owe ii to those men and women, some of whom are serving their third or fourth tour in afghanistan or iraq, we owe them our very best. >> if mcchrystal were of so vital, would this be such a the decision? >> i think that our efforts in afghanistan are bigger than one person. i think that there is a strategy that was born out of discussions on the military in civilian side. we said this about iraq and afghanistan. there is not a military solution to this problem. in marginaa. this in our efforts if a government structure cannot be created to secure it, ou cannot transfer. this is

host: rome, wyoming, is next, on our independent line. gene, go ahead. caller: yeah, hey, how you doing this morning? it's actually rollins, wyoming. it's kind of a funky little republican more or less town in wyoming. i would advise anybody from michigan not to bother to move to. anybody, i read a really interesting book about 10 years ago, published in 2000 by jim mars. some people may know his name. and it's called "rules by secrecy." a very interesting read for anybody out there who is interested about the general topic of secrecy. i think that there's a great wrong history of secrecy that has gone back many thousands of years, and actually, mars' thesis in the books, what he writes in the end is that perhaps we, the human race, are not really anything but ruled by a secrecy that is -- that has so many layers that we will never penetrate through all of them. and he, of course, calls for a truthful dialogue at the end of the book. and indeed, we see that now in and indeed, we see that now in our entire culture, everything that's happened, everything i

if you look at the course of history, whether it is ancient rome or the bourbon house in france or the ming dynasty or various societies throughout time, the decline in the society actually occurred very quickly, often within a decade and what was the precipitating event? it was the fact that revenue outlays increased dramatically and yet even geometrically over revenue input. that is what you see occurring in the united states today. everyone thinks we are too big, we are too powerful, we are diversifying. that can never happen under the united states. i didn't come here and this black outfit because i am debbie downer here today but it is called to say we need to very seriously consider what is occurring and what is transpired in the last 18 months or so is not business as usual. this is a very different course than america has been on, one that is very serious and one that pretends-- pro-tends a real difference for your future. i am a tax lawyer. i have a law degree but i also have a post law school degree and tax law from the college of william and mary. probably before all of you

about identifying those minorities who want to know about chopin, schopenhauer, einstein, greece, rome that? >> liberal education. you want students to study history, literature, philosophy, and to ask the big questions about life and what kind of empathy they have appeared the best education has to be abroad. but it is not about training. >> it task to be broad. -- . >> it is not about training. >> it has to be broad. >> we have to have our students take more courses in the arts and sciences. >> let's thank our panel. [applause] i hope everyone sees that there are some fantastic agents or changed sitting here. being the optimist that i am, i think we can expect a tremendous improvement as we move forward in this very technically complicated business of education. thank you for being here. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> pulitzer prize winners today on prime time. he talks about the final decade of the cold war. we also look at the first tycoon -- the life and times of cornelius vanderbilt. a