The fundamental purpose of the college experience is to bring together trained and experienced minds, and make these available to green scholars who will rise to be the makers of the world in the future. “The Tomorrow’s Leaders” conference held this week exposed youth leaders to this university ideal in intense miniature.
Forty of the nation’s best and brightest high school students gathered in the halls of BU for a three-day university experience. BU President Jon Westling, Chancellor John Silber and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel met with government experts and the First Lady to examine activism. These leaders, with trained and experienced minds, demanded action against indifference from the audience.
It is excellent to see that the men and women who will be responsible for government, politics, education and freedom in the future have begun to make a firm commitment to social change. It is furthermore reassuring to see that their brief period of discussion, philosophy and provocation has resulted in a passion for change within the preexisting system.
Often, campuses are filled by students questioning the government, the politics of the day, even the administrators which run their school, as they explore a reality their professors have revealed to be much more complex than they believed as children. Demands are made for change, for protest. All too often second-guessing, originally a part of healthy learning, leaves restraint and common sense forgotten in the zeal for activism.
This three-day dialogue “between young participants and inspirational role models” is a commendable way to put the energy that is elsewhere channeled into protest toward developing support for humanitarian causes, political sincerity and an end to indifference.
These young participants were exposed to ideas other than those that deconstruct society, leaving tomorrow’s generations to start again from scratch. The students attending the “Tomorrow’s Leaders” conference hope to spread social awareness within society.
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