Posted on 01/07/2011 1:00:59 PM PST by dennisw
Thanks for the ping!
Today’s Ivy League grads are primarily the new managerial class, though sometimes sheer brilliance from such a student peeks through and he or she contributes more. It is our top technical schools and departments that more reliably produce our industry innovators.
There is something predictable in the callow and earnest smugness of many IL grads, but such an attitude and approach is valuable in many positions: they’re smart enough to do the job, but not smart and independent enough to question it.
Still, I’d argue that the IL polish only makes those grads more of what they were already. The more creative and innovative ones may be in the minority (but not so small a relative minority as at State School U.), but I’m not so certain they become ruined there: I think they likewise only become more of who they truly are as well. And both groups of students gain by the connections and opportunities that the IL experience affords them.
” In a society that is financially solvent where the unemployed are there by choice not by chance, that I’ll bet my right arm on. “
make that 2 right arms.
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Thank you so much for the link!!!
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