Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes to open yourself to the transformative power of real learning and that courage I am exposed to almost every day at MIT and that I'm deeply grateful for.

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Junot Diaz was a contemporary American dominican-american writer and academic. Junot Díaz is a Dominican American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a former fiction editor at Boston Review. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience, particularly the Latino immigrant experience. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Courage — Facing fear, adversity, and uncertainty with bravery
  • Power — The dynamics of influence, authority, and leadership

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