"I've been a professor, a teacher, for 42 years. I've done a lot of other things, but I've always come back to teaching. That's been my home, and I can't imagine not doing it, to be quite honest,"
"Before that, I was special assistant to Abraham Lincoln,"
"No, that's a bad joke."
Robert Reich delivers the final semester of his UC Berkeley course Wealth and Poverty as he concludes a 42-year teaching career. The documentary The Last Class captures his interactions with students, campus celebrity moments, and classroom performance. Reich's public service includes roles as economic adviser to President Barack Obama, secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton, and assistant to the solicitor general in the Ford administration. Reich co-founded the educational nonprofit Inequality Media Civic Action and authored best-sellers like The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It. At 79, Reich questioned his ability to maintain previous teaching standards and chose to leave teaching in 2023, expressing dislike for the word 'retirement.' The film earned $700,000 at the box office prior to wide release.
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