Richard Dreyfuss is one of the most successful actor in his generations. starting classic movies Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and The Goodbye Girl which he won Oscar with the best actor. But the actor turned away from show business to scholar these days. One another thing he drive behind Dreyfuss initiative, remind of American the importance of teaching civics to school children. He also spent 4 years in * University. We are very pleased to have Dreyfuss here.

 

I found this kind of amazing it really cool, because it's rare for somebody to leave a business they have been successful in at a very successful time. And do something else that incredible passion about. It's really a cool thing to do, were you nerves about leaving?

 

No, I adore doing something for 40 years, if you do something for 40 years, you are allowed stop doing it. I like it, I love my country.

 

There are lots of people hanging on until they fall past the time they maybe should have stop and turn to something. 

 

My daughter wrote a novel about a desperate doctor trying to get back. About a year later, I said you know the novel hurt. and she says why, I said cause it wasn't true. Then she said dad. And I said think of it. I went to * for 4 years, you can't do both. 

 

What did you do * for?

 

I was a senior advisory researcher at St. Antony's College. I was trying to figure out the damage been done by the absence of civics. And it's huge, problem is or one of the problem is civics itself is more on words, it deal with an urgent problem, and if it's not deal with, we are not getting out of this century.

 

So kids are learning history, constitution.

 

Right, office header, the president, corporate people or industry or military. 

 

Did you come up with a program or a plan?

 

Yes, you have to youngest kids, develop affection, pride and love of this country. And then you teach them with reasoning with logic, clary a thought with expression and critical analysis which means some emotional maturity to exercise. 

 

Did you see a difference the gap you try to fill in United States, English kids, British kids, are there difference there touching civics?

 

They were kind of American, they don't really being called English or British, I didn't care about that. 

 

Was a catalyst when you see a kid during * leave or something that made you realize that civics was a thing you really felt.

 

You felt in any newspaper in any city, you can see story of about crime being claimed by terrorist, by the president, or somebody. And you don’t see any story of being held *, and also when you looked at the newspaper front page, you don't understand one story on that page, you don't understand trillions of dollars on Wall street, you don't understand mortgage scandal, you don't understand anything that means we are completely failing with children, which means some point in the future, they will turn to us and say something that never said. They gonna say how did you abandoned us like this, because they are not prepared at all.

 

Do you think your kids will lead a better, I mean most generations of American always have expectations that sub generation will lead a better life or have more opportunities. do you have that confidence of you kids?

 

When you think the future of this country, are you comfortable or easy for that or are you uneasy or uncomfortable?