Hello, it is Saturday, it's Saturday, show time, this being the show.

But you know what I like to call the show, public school, East Coast Schools opening.

Welcome to the show, I say, no I don't, I do, I stand outside of school yards and just

yell at children, welcome to the show, rock.

You're like, I don't understand your references, I'm nine.

But it is back to school, you know, if you live in the south or the west or really anywhere

other than my milieu, you've probably been back in school.

But this is the traditional start of school in much of the country.

So let's embrace it, let's talk about schooling and education, two great interviews.

First I will play an interview from 2017 where I talked with Lenora Chu and I remember,

I remember this interview, I remember one sentence from the book she wrote about her being

an American family moving to China and encountering Chinese educational practices and the name

of the book is Little Soldiers, an American boy, a Chinese school and the global race to

achieve.

And you'll hear her say this, one generation plants the tree, the next sits in the shade.

I think about that a lot when we talk about how unfair the accumulation of wealth is or

the wealth tax or Thomas Piketty or why should people from a lower strata have disadvantages

all true.

But then I also think about for most of human history, the idea not so eloquently expressed

but lived was one generation plants the tree, the next sits in the shade.

Is that so much worse than a Pikatean, if you will, idea about how the world should go?

The other interview I'm going to play is from the other interview that I'm going to play

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