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Last Thursday, Professor Robert Coles gave a lecture that I have needed to hear for a while. It is the story--and I urge you to take Gen Ed 105 so you can hear this for yourself--about the time Coles, a grad student at Harvard, spends a week mixing a particular chemical in lab, only to mistakenly pour it down the drain at the very end. His instructor stood there watching and laughing, and didn't stop him. Coles cursed, dropped the flask, and walked...
Coles started this story after asking us what drew us to Gen Ed. He mumbled something about us all wanting As, and knowing that we'll protest to our teaching fellows if we chance to get anything less. In the back row of my section in Sanders, I nodded to myself. I would love to say that I am one of those kids who actually signed up for Gen Ed for the reading list, and that I sit each in the front row of Sanders listening intently for each lecture. But I signed on for all the wrong reasons...
...Ed 105 class, it's generally held that the answer to this last question is no--people choose the lucrative fields because they are lucrative. The belief is that no one in their right mind would argue that handling a merger and acquisition is as noble a contribution to society as is teaching...
...MONEY. To observers, this is what that world is about. Money is an object, or a commodity which people love to hate. There is something "cool" or noble about choosing to belittle the significance of money, and something weak and compromising about attributing to it great importance. In Gen Ed 105, in the world in which journalists and artists are glorified, pre-law students and recruitees are made to feel like money-hungry sleazeballs. Again, we find the belief that law, consulting and investment banking are "lifeless" professions...
...eager to work with Morris, who had been a mentor to him. In high school Schoen had canvassed races for Morris on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Schoen and his partner, Penn, who had attended Harvard together, later distinguished themselves as New Democratic consultants and pollsters for Mayor Ed Koch of New York City, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Evan Bayh of Indiana. They had also polled for a succession of Arkansas politicians, including Clinton's rival, former Governor Jim Guy Tucker...