If You've Got It. You Can Learn How To Use It.

       Well, now they've done it. Now you can go to Harvard University and you can take a course in how to take advantage of your privileges. That is to say, if you or your family is well connected, this course will help you to learn how to take advantage of these privileges. Apparently there is no course on how to get by without these privileges. I suppose that at Harvard, it's assumed you are of privilege.
       Just how important is it to teach young people from wealthy, well connected families, how to use those connections to their best interests? But again, if you happen to be a student at Harvard and aren't from a wealthy, well connected, family, it's just your tough luck. Perhaps it's a way of telling poorer students that they shouldn't be there in the first place. Now to be fair, I can't honestly state there is no such course for poorer students. But there was no mention of such a course in the article I read.
       The question I have is; how necessary is it to teach children of privilege how to take advantage of privilege? Haven't they already learned that as a child with far more expensive gifts at birthdays and Christmas and more of them? Didn't they learn it at the private prep schools they attended. Or the "shoe in" acceptance at the best colleges in the country? Exactly who is it that thinks these kids don't already know they're privileged, or how best put those privileges to work on their behalf?
       The folks who really need this kind of course are the kids who don't have privilege and need to learn how to develop connections that will help them to succeed in life. When Harvard and other schools start offering that kind of course, then they'll be doing a service for society. But then I guess doing a service for society isn't what they're in business for. It seems the reason for Harvard's existence is to help the already privileged to become privileged in their own right.
       I suppose there is good reason for that training. After all, daddy isn't gonna live forever. Although at 15% tax on estates, most of his fortune will.