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Re:Stanford to continue legacy admissions and withdraw from ... by monkeyelite on Sunday August 10, 2025 @08:51AM (#44854850)
I see where this quote is coming from… but Einstein is a bad example. His success was not from golden Stanford opportunities.

Every life decision was him opting out of responsibility and prestige to spend more time on his interests.

So “people of equal talent, and commitment to their work at the cost of all other qualities of life including relationships” looks very different than that quote wants to suggest.

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Re:Stanford to continue legacy admissions and withdraw from ... by solace_silence on Sunday August 10, 2025 @07:14PM (#44859242)
The quote seems quite on the nose to me. Einstein wasn't raised by paupers.
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Re:Stanford to continue legacy admissions and withdraw from ... by SR2Z on Sunday August 10, 2025 @07:50PM (#44859511)
No, he just was forced to be a refugee from his own country. Do we really have to compare suffering?
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Re:Stanford to continue legacy admissions and withdraw from ... by monkeyelite on Thursday August 14, 2025 @11:06AM (#44901290)
The context of this discussion is an argument that we need to find the Albert Einstein of the world to help them go to Stanford. My argument is that Einstein never went to the proverbial Stanford. In fact he avoided those things.
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Re:Stanford to continue legacy admissions and withdraw from ... by monkeyelite on Thursday August 14, 2025 @11:06AM (#44901298)
Einstein was a patent clerk rather than a professor. He explicitly chose not to “go to Stanford”.
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