“I don’t know what they teach these kids at Harvard,” said retired New York deputy fire chief, Jim Riches.
That, according to the Crimson, in response to the arrest of a young man who graduated from Harvard’s law school last spring—Brian Schroeder, who has been accused of setting fire to the New York City chapel that houses the remains of unidentified victims of the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Harvard’s “Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center For Ethics” can help. A recent memo from the school announces:
Eliot Spitzer, former Governor and Attorney General of New York, will deliver a public lecture as part of the 2009/10 Labs Lectures on the Question of Institutional Corruption.
Thursday, November 12 at 4:30pm
Emerson Hall, Room 105
25 Quincy Street, CambridgeThis is a ticketed event.
Yep, Mr. Spitzer looks like the guy to answer Chief Riches’ question about what they teach at Harvard.
November 5th, 2009 | 7:51 am
Leaving aside the question of Harvard: This sad news item seems to me to bring up questions relating to responsibility and exactly what is owed to the younger generations by those who have preceded them. Modern refusal to acknowledge wide-spectrum norms for human development; insistence on regarding disorders as something to be “celebrated”, imprisons people as effectively as did intolerance and prejudice. When we refuse to see the price that afflicted people pay – in terms of physical and emotional health – for certain afflictions and practices and, therefore, do not concentrate on assisting them in recovery and achievement of full health, we are guilty, in my opinion, of egregious disrespect and dereliction of duty.
November 5th, 2009 | 10:17 am
That is a telling pair of anecdotes. Thank you for it. More evidence, if any were needed, that the fish rots from the head down.
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