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Indeed, to shift his student’s relatively short-sighted thinking about the purpose of higher education, Wiley assigned his classes to read David Foster Wallace’s poignant 2005 Kenyon College commencement speech, which challenges “the so-called real world of men and money and power.” Wallace posits that true living is instead about “being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.”

Similarly, Steve Jobs said in his famous 2005 Stanford commencement address that “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

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