A woman in a coloured dress, accompanied by her husband, dressed in a modest suit, came off the train at Boston Station and headed to the office of the president of Harvard University.
They were not appointed for a meeting. The secretary at first glance determined that such provincialists had nothing to do at Harvard.
“We would like to meet with the president,” the man said in a low voice.
“He will be busy all day,” the secretary said dryly.
We’ll wait, the woman said.
For several hours, the secretary ignored the visitors, hoping that at some point they would be disappointed and leave. However, convinced that they were not going anywhere, he still decided to bother the president, although he did not want to.
“Maybe, if you take them for a moment, will they leave?” he asked the president.
He breathed out of anger and agreed. For such an important person as him, there is no time to take in people dressed in coloured fabric dresses and poor costumes.
When the visitors entered, the president looked at the couple with a harsh and arrogant look. A woman addressed him:
- We had a son, for a year he studied at your university. He loved this place and was very happy here. Unfortunately, he died unexpectedly a year ago. My husband and I would like to leave a memory of him in the university.
The president was not delighted with this at all, but even irritated.
and Miss! He arrogantly replied, “We can’t put a statue on everyone who studied at Harvard and died. If we did, this place would be like a cemetery.
“No,” said the woman, “we don’t want to build a statue, we want to build a new building for Harvard.
The president looked at the flowered cloth and poor suit and cried out:
The Corpus! Do you know how much one such body costs? All Harvard buildings are worth more than $7 million!
The woman silenced.
The President smiled. They will finally leave!
The woman turned to her husband and said quietly:

Is it so cheap to build a new university? Why not build our own university? The man affirmed.

The president of Harvard was pale, he looked confused.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanford stood up and left the office.
They founded in Palo Alto, California, in memory of their beloved son, the university, which bears their name - Stanford University.

But Stanford would not have become one of the top three universities in the world if the U.S. government had not exempted investors from taxes and given the university economic and social freedom in choosing directions and standards of training. It is just profitable for private to equip laboratories there, because the authorities of the country encourage them with tax benefits, it is profitable for teachers to teach the most modern technologies well, because there are no stupid semi-literate federal officials deciding for you how and where you should step and what to say according to the programs approved by them, officials. and TD. This is their government, not ours. It seems like just reforming education. Take Stanford’s example and repeat it with us. and happiness. We also build with a song. Selected for the top 100 universities reduce the number of teachers in times, generally cancel the training of specialists as unnecessary, close the Scientific Councils, require review of their publications in American systems, the concept of vocational education is thrown out of displays, etc. and TD. The main thing, according to the medicines of foolish economists, is that of the underwhelming... Haliluya

PS The main trouble is not in the managers of education and economy fools, but in the fact that we have not yet Mr. and Mrs. Stanford, but there are owners of yachts, football and striptease clubs, whose children have no idea why they need to work and what profession to study, and their parents are stupid to care about the future of this country.