Across classrooms, workplaces, and online spaces, we see a troubling pattern of brilliant minds constrained by systems that leave people unseen and pitted against one another. Students arrive on campus carrying extraordinary talent alongside profound doubts about whether they belong. Workers collaborate across distances without the structures that help trust grow. Online, algorithms prioritize outrage rather than understanding, turning differences into divisions and disagreements into identity. The consequence is unmistakable: any system, whether a classroom or a social media platform, built on isolation will fail us.