Then he went on the phone and yelled at a bunch of people about paying taxes to teach other people’s kids and foreigners who were going to take my place at Duke when they should be getting a job or maybe going to state, and then they’d try to organize his company.

Human compassion at its finest, eh? I wonder if the father would be thinking the same thing if his company went bankrupt and then somebody told him, with a smug smile, that his son should really just “get a job” at Burger King rather than dreaming about college, and then angrily protested about him taking “my money” when he said his son still wanted to go.

I know Duke is a college where Dad went; he says it used to be a school for people like us but isn’t sure now.

He sounds like one of those “good ol’ boys” dreaming about the days when Yale kept the women and blacks at arms length.

Did the examples of parallels in education speeches by Pres Reagan and Bush I come from the White House, or some enterprising journalist? I doubt it was invented by the Canadian newspaper that reported it on Tuesday. The parallels were pretty effective, at least for someone who does not find the current president a threat to his way of life.