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"My first inclination is to tell a young person from a privileged background who has been identified as a 'natural leader,' quite likely for displaying the qualities generally associated with authoritarianism, that he should spend his life repressing rather than cultivating those traits."

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The biggest problems facing the world — poverty, economic inequality, climate change, racism, sexism — are structural problems that require collective action to solve.

It is too easy to think that strong, smart, capable, charming leaders produced through leadership training can fix problems that are systemic in nature. If anything, what SLIC produces are more members of an elite class that has a vested interest in continuing the systems that put it at the top of the food chain. If a student aspires to be a leader, he may well become the problem he is trying to solve.

Shampa Biswas