Hutton Honors College

Asking the Tough Questions—Discussion breakfast with Rob Reich, professor of political science from Stanford University.

This is a small-group program and requires participants to sign up in advance. Participants must be IU undergraduates and must sign up using the established procedures. For complete sign-up procedures, click here.

Stanford political science professor Rob Reich makes a practice of asking tough questions:

• What does it mean to be a "citizen of the world"?
• Should children have political rights?
• Is public service, by definition, a good thing?
• Is education necessary to democracy?
• Do parents have an obligation to expose their children, even those who are home-schooled, to beliefs that conflict with their own?

Professor Reich holds a joint appointment in the Stanford Department of Political Science and the Program in Ethics and Society. He has written numerous articles on such topics as the ethics of public service and philanthropy, the Socratic method, education in diverse democracies, the limits of parents' authority, and the teaching of values, as well as a book called Bridging Liberalism and Multiculturalism in Education. At this breakfast, you will have the opportunity to discuss with Professor Reich his questions and your own. The breakfast is co-sponsored by the Wells Scholars Program and the Hutton Honors College.

Professor Reich will deliver a Poynter Center Fellows public lecture titled, "Beyond Negligence and Abuse: Intervening in Families on Behalf of Children," on Thursday, April 21, at 4 p.m. in the Main Library 033.

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