Describe something you learned in high school.

My high school education is as strange as it comes.   I was not aware of any impression from the teachers that contributed to my learning or character.  The  functional and essential lessons for life did not come from the context of math, science and the humanities in the classroom, but rather from a single figure demonstrating that young people needed to be true to themselves and the community to which they belonged.

Stand up the struggle for social justice

The power and diversity of languages and the combination of music with sober reflection touched me more deeply than anything else.  It seems now that I took with me the idea that the best use of anything I learned was going to need friends and teamwork.  As a result, my greatest joys come from the lasting friendships,  the  music, and the courage to protest anything, anything at all.