[Leica] Harvard tuition

[msmall at infionline.net (Marc James Small)]

At 08:11 PM 8/31/2006, Frank Filippone wrote:
>Don, I must agree that you have posted all GOOD 
>reasons to send your kid to Harvard.....  Mine 
>may not have been good reasons, but
>to launch a kid into a career, he needs an 
>edge.  Name brand schools provide that 
>edge.  The fact that he gets a good education,
>well, he can get a good education at Podunk U as 
>well..... It is what the kid does with the challenges that count.

Frank

I was graduated from Washington & Lee 
University.  While there, I met one future US 
Senator, a future US Representative, and a bunch 
of future judges, along with my best friend of 
that time, now the Assistant Secretary of the 
Army for Civil Engineering. None of these 
connections have ever done me a bit of good, 
though that is mainly due to my own failure to play them for any benefit.

One reason to attend a top-ranked school is to 
make contacts which you can then use to advance your career.

(I later attended Yale Graduate School in 
Classical Languages where, out of my nine 
classmates, two went on to become Classics 
Professors in tenure-track positions.  I then 
went to William & May Law School, where three 
classmates became Commonwealth's Attorneys and 
one a mover-and-shaker in the Virginia House of 
Delegates.  I did better in my attendance at the 
Defense Information School at Uncle Ben's Rest 
Home:  three of my classmates ended up as 
Editors-in-Chief or whatever the title might have 
been for smaller newspapers and two ended up as 
senior flacks for Fortune 500 companies.)

I haven't much ability to use these contacts 
other than to urge things such as adoption of the 
Fair Tax, but, still, I have them.  Others more 
skilled than I in the art of begging for jobs 
could have done far better than I did at padding 
their own next, and many have done so.

Marc



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