While the admirable Michael Lewis made an insightful and heartfelt speech at this year’s Princeton graduation (see the full text here), I am but left wondering whether it makes sense to say these things to people who have already gone through 4 whole years of Wall Street College, Inc. Lewis told graduating seniors in an (unsurprisingly) exclusive event that they were lucky and owed a debt to the unlucky, concluding with a reminder of Princeton’s motto, “In the Nation’s Service and in the Service of All Nations.” If the point of these speeches is to inspire, wouldn’t it make more sense to address incoming freshmen still open to reason and confused sophomores frantically looking for finance internships?
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Robert says:
June 5, 2012 at 8:00 am (UTC 0 )
I don’t know, I think his own life is great evidence that people can have a wakeup call once they get out into the world for a little while. Hopefully our classmates will draw on his words, I thought it was a decent, not amazing, but decent speech.
EW says:
July 13, 2012 at 5:23 am (UTC 0 )
Is Princeton full of spoiled children? You’re further proving his point, and further proving your own immaturity and unfounded sense of entitlement. That was an incredible speech. You’d do well to heed his words.