-: I mean, Temple was the training ground, man.
Temple was the training ground in two ways.
I think the most important ways it provided an education
that was not kind of myopic
or kind of like just one thing, you know.
It really gave me the opportunity to understand
that there are many different things that I'm interested in,
and it taught me how to apply all the things
that I'm interested in in whatever discipline
I'm working in in the moment.
Temple taught me that.
College is a space where it allows you,
a safe space hopefully, and it allows you the time
to critically think for yourself.
That's what Temple is about.
Temple's about giving you a safe environment
by which you can allow yourself
to find your own inner voice.
I think for a long time, your conscience, or your,
the thing that's guiding you on the inside,
tends to be the voice of your parents or teachers of past.
This is a space where it pushes you to say,
"Listen, you've got this amount of time here,
"what do you think?
"How can you think for yourself?"
I think that's what, that's what Temple means to me.