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A message from the Rector of Alterbridge University, Natia Gotsadze, to the students:
“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.”In these words, Kant describes immaturity as the unwillingness of a person to live and act guided by their own reason, instead of being directed by the thoughts of others. Enlightenment, on the other hand, is the courage and strength to dare to use one’s own understanding…
Today, as I open the doors of Alterbridge, I see the result…A combination of outcomes, each of which I associate with these very words – enlightenment, an act of courage, the daring to think, the daring to act, and the daring to believe in one’s own goals.
All of our achievements begin with a single step – and it is this very first step that is often the hardest to take. Yet, you will never know what could have been unless you try. That is why it is always better to act, because inaction is emptiness, while action always brings results.
Now, as I look back, I realize that everything is the result of the steps I dared to take…
When I dared to begin in a single room, with just one training, doing the work I love…When I gathered a team who, like me, dared to believe that there is nothing more valuable in life than helping people discover themselves…When together we dared never to surrender to the difficulties that stood in our way each time…
When we showed people that change begins with them, and then set the example ourselves, because we dared to make the greatest change…When we dared to take on the challenge of becoming a higher education institution – and later overcame this challenge, becoming the only new university to be granted unconditional authorization!
And even now, when every single day we must dare to create alternative educational opportunities in our country!
Alterbridge is welcoming a new generation of students!
Our message is clear – DARE!
Dare to choose A lternative
Dare to embrace L eadership
Dare to stand for T olerance
Dare to show E mpathy
Dare to be R esilient
Dare to seek B rilliance
Dare to take R isks
Dare to be I nnovative
Dare to D ream
Dare to G row
Dare to E xcel
Yes – “Dare to Think,” Sapere aude! – this is where Enlightenment begins, and it is the very act of courage that each individual must take…
We dared – and that is why we are here today!
See you at Alterbridge!