Big Ideas

John O'Leary and Robert Logan on Literacy in a Digital Age (2003x24)

Air date: Apr 14, 2003

John O'Leary is the president of Frontier College. In this talk, he looks back at the history of the college as well as the current challenges it faces in bringing literacy to the new frontier -- Canada's inner cities. Robert Logan is a noted physicist and author of The Alphabet Effect, a book which argues that one reason for the rise of Western science is our alphabet.