The farmer looks at the banker s eyes for a moment. I see a glimmer of compassion in your left eye, he says. So it must be the glass one. We strive to help our students grow into people of competence, conscience, and compassion. I build my essay on these three pillars.
Bakers turn grain into bread and cake.
Tom Wolfe tells the parable of the cake in his novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities. Sherman McCoy is the master of the universe bond trading financier in Wolfe s novel. McCoy and Judy, his wife, try to explain to their daughter Campbell what bond financiers do for society in exchange for the fees they charge. Just imagine that a bond is a slice of cake, and you didn t bake the cake, but every time you hand somebody a slice of the cake, a tiny little bit comes off, like a little crumb, and you can keep that. Judy was smiling, and so was Campbell, who seemed to realize that this was a joke, a kind of fairy tale based on what her daddy did.