Folly? What No Large Charity or University Fundraiser Wants to Read

Years ago, I read a copy of Get Smarter: Life and Business Lessons, Seymour Schulich’s freewheeling and eccentric “mentoring book.” Schulich is one of Canada’s great philanthropists, a man who has given away more than $200 million to charity, and has university faculties named for him across the country. He has a gloriously mischievous approach to life and philanthropy. Even though he has chosen to support traditional causes (universities and education), he has done so in an iconoclastic fashion.