Henry Adams didn’t think much of his Harvard education. In 1907, he penned The Education of Henry Adams, and, writing in third person, said, “The four years passed at college were, for his purposes wasted…He did not want to be one in a hundred – one per cent of an education. He regarded himself as the only person for whom his education had value, and he wanted the whole of it.”
As I reflected on my one year of a Bostonian education – at Boston College – I thought: If Henry thought Harvard was a waste, I can’t imagine what he would have said about college now.
