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In all of America no matter the context, industry, or situation, there are a few things we can all agree on. One of them is that Stanford is one of the greatest universities in our country by all the most important metrics: academic excellence, classiness, respect, and campus beauty.
This isn’t controversial or up for any debate by anyone. It’s just true like saying Caitlin Clark is a great basketball player.
Stanford is regal, does important things, and attracts the smartest people to become students and professors. To be associated with Stanford is to gain instant credibility.
If you were giving Stanford an overall score based on everything, it would be A+. Only a few other higher education institutions would get an A+ – but they tend to do more controversial things and have more negatives associated with them.
But not Stanford. The fewest blemishes of all of the thousands of universities in our country.
I bring this up because the Wake Forest football team will be traveling to the unbelievably gorgeous Palo Alto, California campus to take on the Cardinal this Saturday. I feel good that the school I went to, Wake Forest, is playing one of the greatest institutions in America and the world.
It’s an honor to be associated with admirable excellence.
Then I started thinking about Wake Forest and all it stands for, and there are quite a few similarities with Stanford.
High academic standards are paramount in both institutions. This is a non-negotiable constantly. Nothing comes to the fore that matters more than the students who go to Stanford and Wake Forest will work hard to earn their degrees. Those who graduate will have pushed themselves beyond what they thought they were capable of.
There’s another similarity. Both universities are respected nationwide. When you say you graduated from Stanford, that means something. It’s impressive.
It’s also true about Wake Forest. Wake Forest and Stanford are legitimate, no-nonsense places where the primary focus is learning and learning some more and learning some more.
Stanford and Wake Forest are two places that Americans are proud of even if they have no affiliation with either one. Because they do things the right way, the mature way. Not much ambiguity about why they exist: to educate – extremely well.
If you don’t do the classwork, you don’t pass the course and you don’t graduate. I know plenty of people who went to Wake Forest when I did who didn’t graduate. This is a serious place when it comes to grades and earning them.
Wake Forest and Stanford aren’t perfect, of course, but more often than not they do what’s right. They are at the foundation of what America stands for on its best days, which is striving to improve not for purely selfish reasons but to share those intellectual skills to make the world a better place to live.
When the teams take the field this weekend, think about the respect Stanford and Wake Forest generate and so richly deserve. Despite the growing pressures to become more about making money through the football program, they are not – and never will be – football-first institutions.
Holding firm, standing tall, and resisting temptations, Stanford and Wake Forest are shining and inspirational examples of what great American institutions look like and how they go about their missions.
Isn’t it uplifting to know that with all that’s so complicated in this world, including the transfer portal college sports Imbroglio, Stanford, and Wake Forest make you think about more than just winning football games?
They make you think about reading great literature, taking exams that stretch the minds of college students, and make them realize that a person’s life becomes much more rich when they become educated and are infused with a curiosity to keep learning every day for the rest of their lives.
Don’t you have positive feelings when you hear the words Stanford and Wake Forest?
Of course, you do.
So do I.
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