A paraphrased extract from my book The Radical Road Map for Undergraduates It is generally believed that one cannot be two things at a time, especially in an academic setting. That is, is either you are academically sound and be street foolish or you are academically foolish and be street wise or sound. This is a thinking of an atrophied brain. It is possible to achieve both - academic prowess and street wisdom. There is no point in building up yourself to be the best in your school, only to come back to the larger society and find life not very comfortable. There are lots of graduates out there with good academic results in their hands, but they are still thinking of how to survive in the society because while studying they neglected their society in their academic study. I will say they build themselves for the school, to become the champion in the school. (Read about how students build themselves only for school under why ‘I wrote this book,’ and why you should study about ...
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