Opinion: Robert Smith should ignore the critics. There’s a long tradition in America of our wealthiest residents financing educational opportunities for the less fortunate.
Robert Smith was raised in a working-class Denver neighborhood in the 1970s. A high-school science class in his junior year sparked his interest in transistors, the building blocks of computers, cellphones and other electronic devices.
Transistors were invented in the 1940s by AT&T’s Bell Labs, which had a facility not far from the teenager’s home. He applied for a summer internship there but was told it was available only to juniors and seniors in college. Unbowed and impatient, he spent months pestering people in the human-resources department to give him a shot. Eventually, they did.
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