Who says you can't?

There's a lot of work to do out there.  Lots of problems to solve.  Lots of issues to think through.  Big problems.  Big issues.  There's a growing disparity between the rich and the poor, marginalization of various groups of people in our society, juvenile delinquency, pollution, global warming, declining fish stocks, unsustainable and inhumane ways of raising livestock... I could go on... 

Faced with such problems, it's easy to throw up our hands and give up.  Who are we to address these issues?  We're not experts.  We didn't spend our lives studying this in school.  We're not qualified.

Then, I remember something that Dr. Abdal Hakim Jackson said at the Reviving the Islamic Spirit Convention 2011.  He said:

The people who started Harvard University 

were not graduates of Harvard University.

It's so obvious and yet so brilliant.