<p>Actually just a little reminder that two can play the same game. Perhaps you should have studied Western Civilization at UChicago.</p>
<p>The Ivy League is nothing from a historical point of view. It has existed for 80 years. 50 years ago Stanford was a second-rate community college. At the turn of the century the French and German universities led the world.</p>
<p>Mark Twain, America’s greatest writer didn’t even go to college, let alone HYP. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln–America’s two greatest Presidents–didn’t go to Ivy League schools. Nor did John D. Rockeller, the richest man in American history.</p>
<p>Cambridge University and Oxford University in England have a much more illustrious history than the Ivy League, having led the world for centuries. But even the establishment in Britain could never deal with the fact their greatest name, Shakespeare, didn’t go to Oxbridge (thus the conspiracy theories to find an alternative ‘author.’)</p>
<p>Universities come and universities go (you might want to Google the universities of Berlin, Bologna, and Edinburgh.) In the beginning God didn’t create HYP. </p>
<p>For most of its 400-year history, Harvard was a one room school house, completely in the shadow of the European universities. In fact, to this day America’s literature and culture greatly pale in comparison with that of England, France, Germany, Italy, etc. (Sorry, I don’t count American TV or reality shows as culture.)</p>
<p>And to this day, when one speaks of the Golden Age of Civilization, one is speaking of Ancient Greece.</p>
<p>Fortunately for humanity, many of the greatest minds in history didn’t even go to college (which must blow the minds of the CC crowd.) </p>
<p>It’s absolutely hilarious to hear a bunch of shallow braggards on CC claim that they are Plato, Aristotle, and Shakespeare because they went to HYP. In fact, there does seem to be a particular form of mental illness and delusion throughout the Ivy League (thus all of the cheating scandals at Harvard, since the students can’t really live up to their own braggadocio.)</p>
<p>Anyone with any sense of history or education wouldn’t need a reminder of these facts. The vast majority of the greatest minds in history had nothing to do with the Ivy League. Fortunately for the world, no single institution, including UChicago, will ever have a lock on human intelligence. But the important thing about UChicago is that what mattered most throughout its history was the education you got, not trying to sit around weighing which school had the more supposedly prestigious name.</p>
<p>And if you didn’t learn that lesson at UChicago I feel sorry for you.</p>