Humility & Humanity

We've had the "International Political Economy" course for a few sessions where Prof. Jean-Pierre Lehman always started with a "Literacy Test" about the regions we were going to discuss in the following four hours. The topics range from history, politics, economy, literature, etc. It is during such session I realized how ignorant I am of the "Globalized world in 21st century". While most of the class think we are the most international MBA, these literacy tests revealed the truth. There are 7 or 8 colleagues who are ahead of the class in terms of global knowledge.

As Prof. Lehman said, "How often in your lives have you found yourselves or are you likely to find yourselves in an environment of 90 persons from 44 nationalities, with no one dominant, for almost an entire year?"

With such diversity, there is certainly different viewpoints & conflicts. What Prof. Lehman has been trying to facilitate is an open and free environment for discussion. It is a challenging & rewarding experience at the same time! I hope in the end, we would be able to settle in a common ground, which is probably the evolving humanity in a historical context.