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Student Success Statement
“The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.” Margaret Chase Smith

This is an amazing quote by Margaret Chase Smith. Today there are many individuals who succumb to the desires of others knowing that it is wrong, but are pressured into committing improper action. Suppose there is a group of kids who are going to go to their friend’s older brother’s house and drink alcohol, but the kid does not think that it is proper for them to be doing that and is then ridiculed by his “friends” because they believe that he is not “fun” anymore, but the kid decides to leave the group and not consume any alcohol. Ask yourself who is of better character, the kid who left the group or the kid who proposed the insidious activity? Most definitely the kid who did not succumb to his “friends” desires and was not provoked to accept his friend’s proposal even though the others all wanted to drink.  

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Student Success Statement
“Character is higher than intellect.”

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is an amazing quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Many people are extremely intelligent and contribute greatly to our society, but some who possess great minds do not possess great character. Character is deemed higher than intellect, but some do not believe such. Character above all is an important trait expressing both your interior and exterior qualities that are used to distinguish you from others. For example, if you have an online linked bank account and leave for work you may not suspect that an extremely intelligent individual who can contribute a great deal to benefit society, but instead is illegally accessing your bank account and transferring all of your hard earned money into his account for his own benefit and is going to use that money for improper things. Where does that place him? As a proper individual or as a malevolent individual? He is indeed malevolent despite his intelligence because character greatly exceeds the importance of intelligence when it comes to how you are distinguished in society.