Quick question: Is Princeton in the morality business?
I mean, is a Princeton education about moral instruction — developing character, promoting knowledge and truth, creating more humane and enlightened citizens?
Or is my alma mater just another credential mill, a glorified ivy-covered vo-tech school that mints computer scientists, financial engineers, and “social-climbing weasels” (in the piquant words of Scott Newman ’21), whose main goal is to snare big-bucks jobs in investment banking, consulting, and tech, or power and fame in law and politics?
What prompts me to ask are such exemplary graduates as Sam Alito ’72, Jeff Bezos ’86, Ted Cruz ’92, and Pete Hegseth ’03.
Quick question: Is Princeton in the morality business?
I mean, is a Princeton education about moral instruction — developing character, promoting knowledge and truth, creating more humane and enlightened citizens?
Or is my alma mater just another credential mill, a glorified ivy-covered vo-tech school that mints computer scientists, financial engineers, and “social-climbing weasels” (in the piquant words of Scott Newman ’21), whose main goal is to snare big-bucks jobs in investment banking, consulting, and tech, or power and fame in law and politics?
What prompts me to ask are such exemplary graduates as Sam Alito ’72, Jeff Bezos ’86, Ted Cruz ’92, and Pete Hegseth ’03.
Just wondering.