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Bill Gates' 2007 Harvard Commencement Address

Inevitably, we want to compare this to Jobs' speech at Stanford.

I'm going to resist that temptation because I feel that Bill Gates has finally found a vision worthy of his (and Buffet's) billions. And the irony is he had to look outside Microsoft to get it. Well done, Melinda Gates!

'For what purpose?" he asks. Shouldn't our best minds be more dedicated to solving our worst problems? Poverty, Clean Water, Sexism... Gates nails it (except for global warming; I suppose he's left that to Al Gore).

My take: Harvard is failing us, as are our other institutions of higher learning, because they are not helping students develop an "informed conscience" as Gates calls it. Heck, they're not even helping students develop an "un-informed conscience"!

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Posted by Christian on May 3, 2008 12:42 AM |

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