Individuality is most important when one's goals are personal. After all - the world has made it clear that true genius can know no collaboration and that authentic greatness means never sitting on another's shoulders. The lionization of Steve Jobs would not be complete without the autopsies of a thousand dead friendships, right? Each class of students that comes here to Lenox exhibits the awful symptoms of this cultural contagion. We all came to BICS a little i am and were made to look up and consider the Great I AM. We certainly didn't all get it right away - making silly where serious would have profited far more, flirting when courting would have been more productive, and talking when listening would have kept us from being discovered for the fools that we were. But, for most of us, we eventually decided to spend our lives and devote our energies on goals that can only be met as a group. We were taught what it means to be in the family of God and we took our places up front and behind; but always alongside.
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