I chanced upon this yesterday while browsing on Facebook. It is from this year’s convocation speech for NTU’s School of Communication and Information, given by Adrian Tan (The writer of The Teenage Textbook) - it is strangely relevant to the forum yesterday.
“The truth has a great capacity to offend and injure, and you will find that the closer you are to someone, the more care you must take to disguise or even conceal the truth. Often, there is great virtue in being evasive, or equivocating. There is also great skill. Any child can blurt out the truth, without thought to the consequences. It takes great maturity to appreciate the value of silence.”
Silence should not be encouraged, but one must learn the art of thoughtful revelation.
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