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| Inflation? Admiration!: Since we only admit the world’s best students, no professor is allowed to give a grade lower than “B.” Great students deserve great grades! |
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The goal of a Stutts education is not to educate, but to create leaders. In the words of our late President McGregor Paladin, “…what [our students] know or do not know is immaterial. What matters to us is that they be seen as successful, noteworthy, at the top of their field. Anything less means that their time here was wasted. Anything less is an insult to this institution.”
The Revised Curriculum
Stutts students are not taught—they are forged by our famous Revised Curriculum. The “RC” combines the flexibility necessary for students to follow their own interests and aptitudes, with a relentless focus on the real-world application of knowledge. Every area of human knowledge is ransacked for facts that pass a test: Is it useful? Will it help our graduates beat back the endless tide of human flotsam desperate to rob their betters?
Less is more
Troubled leaders are indecisive leaders. Too much learning can paralyze; thoughtfulness can, if left unchecked, mutate into a morbid obsession with right and wrong. Nobody likes a prig, or a know-it-all. The world’s top performers—CEOs, athletes, politicians—are not big readers. We don’t think our students should be, either. Time students at lesser schools spend studying, a Stutts student spends “spidering”—building the web of connections that helps them get things done. Behind every success story are favors, liaisons, secrets, each leveraged at precisely the right moment. By the time he/she graduates, a Stutts student knows a lot of dirt, and knows exactly when to use it. Seminars teach the “smile while you kill” type corporate infighting Stutts grads are known for, and mentors watch with pride as the students practice it on each other via campus organizations. By the time a Stuttsie goes to Career Services to access their database of damaging gossip, he or she is a seasoned manipulator, ruthless enough to make Machievelli reflexively cup his testicles.
Real-world experience
But the “RC” doesn’t stop at the campus gate. Each student spends the summer between Junior and Senior year working in a field of his/her choice, as the “interim CEO” of an alumni-run company. Though this has produced some scary moments—the collapse of Barings bank, several stock market crashes, Chernobyl—it has been an invaluable experience for our students.
Sore losers
Naturally the Stutts way is not for everyone. Some—disgruntled transfers, and universities with endowment envy—have called the “RC” anti-intellectual. Nothing could be further from the truth. In the real world, intellectual pursuits do not exist on their own, but are blended with other aptitudes—sales, for example, or copier repair. Just as we do not teach copier repair, we do not limit ourselves to the intellectual realm. We aim to produce generalists bound for the corner office; puppet masters with untroubled brows, destined to make others dance.
But the only way to truly appreciate the Revised Curriculum, and the Stutts education that surrounds it, is to experience it. You might not like what it does to you, but after your tuition check clears, that's not our problem.
