 Dr. John Silber is Chancellor of Boston University. With education and our children at the forefront of the debate on America 's future, Chancellor Silber is an extremely timely speaker with almost three decades of education experience. He is a founder of Operation HeadStart and pioneered the unprecedented partnership to operate the Chelsea , Massachusetts public schools and build a model for transforming urban education and American life. His philosophical ideas have been put forth in his best-selling book Straight Shooting. What's wrong with America ? Nothing that we cannot fix if we use our heads, argues John Silber, America 's most outspoken and articulate university president. In this challenging call for change in our troubled society, Silber draws deeply on two sources: his work as a philosopher and his widely varied experience in school and out. Appointed president of Boston University in 1970, Silber transformed an academic and financial backwater into a thriving center of excellence. What makes him different, and what made the transfommation possible, is the passion of his intellectual and moral convictions and the courage and clarity with which he expresses these convictions. For Silber, traditional American democratic values are not outworn cliches but real and living imperatives which demand that we understand who we are and what we must do. He offers a sane, vigorous, and compassionate vision of how America can still change course and restore these values - among the poor and in our racially divided society, our schools, our courts, our government, our military, and our foreign policy. John Silber tackles America 's urgent problems head-on. A whole man speaks here with persuasive logic and real passion. Recognizing that America is too young to step down, to retire into the second rank of nations, John Silber urges renewed reliance on what is finest in our nation's heritage as we face the challenge of creating a stronger, better America in the last decade of the twentieth century. His lecture topics include: "The Importance of Moral Education" and "Making the Future Work: Our Schools and Our Country."
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