Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.

Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.

Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

The whole thing reminds me of graduate school seminars, except these people are smart and funny and have something interesting to say.

When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.