  I had the marvelous good fortune to be Ken Wilson's graduate student at the
Physics Department, Cornell University, from 1972 to 1976. In this article, I
present some recollections of how this came about, my interactions with Ken,
and Cornell during this period; and acknowledge my debt to Ken, and to John
Wilkins and Michael Fisher, who I was privileged to have as my main mentors at
Cornell. I end with some thoughts on the challenges of reforming education, a
subject that was one of Ken's major preoccupations in the second half of his
professional life.

History and Philosophy of Physics;Physics Education