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Those three students were, of course, [[Francisco d'Anconia]], [[Ragnar Danneskjöld]], and [[John Galt]].

Those three students were, of course, [[Francisco d'Anconia]], [[Ragnar Danneskjöld]], and [[John Galt]].

The peculiar educational choices that these three made necessarily compelled Stadler to corroborate with Akston to devise a curriculum that those three could reasonably follow, and to seek from the school's senior dean certain required-credit waivers. Had Stadler taken the time to have his ''own'' close conversations with Hugh Akston, he might have come to understand how ''necessary'' was the choice that those three students made. Perhaps then he would have gained insight into his own attitudes, and come to embrace the trading principle that John Galt, especially, understood almost instinctively. He might have understood why three young men of such disparate backgrounds could form the most steadfast friendship on the entire campus. (Ragnar Danneskjöld was a [[Norway|Norwegian]] aristocrat, Francisco d'Anconia was the heir to a great business empire, and John Galt came from a ''very'' modest background.) If he had learned from them the valuable lesson that they might have been able to teach him, his own history would have been vastly different. He would ''never'' have suggested the establishment of a [[State Science Institute]]. And even if he could not advocate effectively for human freedom, when such advocacy might have been most important, he probably would have joined John Galt's great [[strike]]. And the country would never have seen anything as dreadful as [[Project X]].

The peculiar educational choices that these three made necessarily compelled Stadler to collaborate with Akston to devise a curriculum that those three could reasonably follow, and to seek from the school's senior dean certain required-credit waivers. Had Stadler taken the time to have his ''own'' close conversations with Hugh Akston, he might have come to understand how ''necessary'' was the choice that those three students made. Perhaps then he would have gained insight into his own attitudes, and come to embrace the trading principle that John Galt, especially, understood almost instinctively. He might have understood why three young men of such disparate backgrounds could form the most steadfast friendship on the entire campus. (Ragnar Danneskjöld was a [[Norway|Norwegian]] aristocrat, Francisco d'Anconia was the heir to a great business empire, and John Galt came from a ''very'' modest background.) If he had learned from them the valuable lesson that they might have been able to teach him, his own history would have been vastly different. He would ''never'' have suggested the establishment of a [[State Science Institute]]. And even if he could not advocate effectively for human freedom, when such advocacy might have been most important, he probably would have joined John Galt's great [[strike]]. And the country would never have seen anything as dreadful as [[Project X]].

But Robert Stadler did none of these things. What he did instead, sent the country further along the path to tyranny, and himself on a path toward utter destruction.

But Robert Stadler did none of these things. What he did instead, sent the country further along the path to tyranny, and himself on a path toward utter destruction.