One particularly valuable skill that I've learned and I've come to treasure in the process of campus learning is that which I call critical curiosity.
This is the practice of approaching distant conversations with both an educated mind and an open heart.
An important distinction to be made here is between being wide-eyed and gullible and being critically curious.
Armed with both unprecedented access to information and digital citizenship skills, modern young people are uniquely positioned to be both inquisitive and discerning.