Daly’s Maxim
On December 29th, 2006 | Filed under admiration, stories | 
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“Higher education has absolutely no impact on character.”
- Daly’s Maxim
many moons ago when i worked at Gallaudet University, i struck up an odd friendship with a rather old, rather unusual physics professor named Daly. he and i would spend countless hours talking about our lives & experiences and just about everything was fair game.
one day he told me that he had only one maxim after all his years as a college professor in what he considered to be a rather frustrating arena (the university setting). Daly’s Maxim was born and was explained thusly:
“scott,” he said to me in a grandfatherly way, “if you were a dickhead before you got your college degree, you’ll still be a dickhead after you graduate. and getting a master’s or a doctorate won’t change that. higher education has absolutely no impact on character.”
“is there any hope for higher educated jerks?” i asked him, stunned by the profundity of his declaration.
“no,” came the terse reply.
