Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Justice Scalia on childhood in NY



New York Magazine has an interesting series with people describing their childhood in New York.  Justice Scalia is one of them:

It is amazing how many of the names of the kids in this class I remember. The teacher standing in the back—that was a lady named Consuela Goins, and she was a wonderful teacher. Every cloud has a silver lining, and one of the benefits of the exclusion of women from most professions was that we had wonderful teachers, especially the women who today would probably be CEOs. My first crush was a girl in this class whose name was Theresa. She’s the one standing to the right of Mrs. Goins. She’s good-looking; I always had good taste. Hugh McGee was generally the class troublemaker—in the middle seat on the right, two girls behind him and two boys in front of him. He was a really smart student, but he was always getting into trouble.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

"and one of the benefits of the exclusion of women from most professions was ... ." Some people just can't seem to keep their foot out of their mouth. ROFL

Anonymous said...

The ignoramous thnks he was giving a compliment.

Anonymous said...

Guess you geniuses are unfamiliar with the whole cloud/silver lining metaphor.