If we withdraw from our young people, and allow ourselves to take a defensive stance based on general reputation rather than using our social intelligence to gauge the positive attributes inside each individual we will create a generation of isolated young people whose own social intelligence will be lacking, as they will have seen no evidence of it in practise. I am not advocating the ‘Hug a Hoodie approach’; I simply believe that re-engaging our social intelligence will help us to avoid dismissing an entire generation.
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