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far better conversations with people who watch
television 15 hours a day than I ever do with the so-
called scholars and intellectuals at Harvard, Yale or
anywhere else. Those people are dead! Those
people are lost! They cannot negotiate in this world
of television and popular music. We have to
embolden the young people first of all, to demand
as we did in the ‘60s, an end to any kind of false
abstraction in their education. I believe history
should be taught. Now here is where my message—
people say I’m conservative. What are they talking
about? To teach history? To teach the history of
the human race, the history of the art forms,
that’s conservative? That’s ridiculous! That is