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I hated my high school but loved my university. If I ever have cash, I will happily donate to the uni. Maybe his experience was the same.

• munin 7y ago
  Not to worry, he also doesn't donate to his university.
• bsanr2 7y ago
  My sense is that this may be the case, but I have trouble understanding it if the school's culture during his time was anything like it was during mine (that is, accepting of diversity not only in backgrounds, but also in aptitudes, with niches for high intellectual and physical achievers, normal kids, and even, perhaps especially, those who would have been marginalized elsewhere.) That said, I think what I'm advocating for approaches a sort of noblesse oblige, in that Brin has been SO successful that any deviation from his existing path might have lead to much less success, obliging consideration of every step along the way; and in that even a marginal actor in his life would be worth giving back to, from the point of view of the actor, commensurate to their involvement. ERHS is a school that could benefit hugely from a modest grant, or periodic appearance (if not personal, perhaps from a Google rep), which would presumably be a incredibly small sacrifice on his part. But most who went their didn't even know he had. It just seems weird.