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Be a disruptor, question things, it's healthy

Every good you are today, you were taught and you can remember some names that contributed to your learning.[File, Standard]

One professor in college once told us: “If you have walked up and down the corridors of this university for four years, and upon graduation you cannot question the systems out there, then you have learnt nothing at all.” It was difficult to understand what he meant then but as time passed - and experiences with it – it dawns on me over and over that a core purpose of a college education is not to add oneself a certificate but to expand one’s way of thought. 

My esteemed professor was affirming that youth are nature’s gift to improve systems. They have an inevitable prophetic edge. They are not to be blamed for their questioning character - it is about nature than culture. Young people exist simultaneously as carriers of accumulated wisdom and its disruptors as well.  

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