Thread: What Happens To Your Attitude Towards Gracious Professionalism When You Leave FIRST?
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Re: What Happens To Your Attitude Towards Gracious Professionalism When You Leave FIR
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Originally Posted by JaneYoung View Post
As students, and perhaps mentors, graduate, leave, or move on from FIRST, what happens to your attitude towards Gracious Professionalism? Towards competing like crazy and working together at the same time? Towards building community and partnerships?

The world is out there and reality is out there, too. I think there is plenty of room for GP to be a part of that reality, helping to build a stronger world.

What do you think?

Jane

I think that this is exactly what we're all supposed to be doing. If we aren't producing students and adults who have the courage to live the ideals set forth by our founders in the larger world, then we have failed. No matter how cool the robots are.

Andrew, you are right. That's why we must produce the folks who will act with grace and integrity, despite the total lack of it in others. If we don't send forward the folks who are courageous enough to do the right thing in the face of adversity, perhaps no one else will.

my .02.
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