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• A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Teacher, Attitude

  "Collected Works".

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• Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Children, Cities

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.178, Rajpal & Sons

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• Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Principles, Use, Daily Life

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• Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Answers, Want, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Perseverance, Teaching

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Healthy, Growth, Circumstances

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Democracy, Facts, Function

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.

  J. William Fulbright

  Education, Wisdom, Peace

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• Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always had great difficulty-since the initiation of the Fulbright scholarships in 1946-in trying to find the words that would persuasively explain that educational exchange is not merely one of those nice but marginal activities in which we engage in international affairs, but rather, from the standpoint of future world peace and order, probably the most important and potentially rewarding of our foreign-policy activities.

  J. William Fulbright

  Nice, Views, Order

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• There is nothing obscure about the objectives of educational exchange. Its purpose is to acquaint Americans with the world as it is and to acquaint students and scholars from many lands with America as it is-not as we wish it were or as we might wish foreigners to see it, but exactly as it is-which by my reckoning is an "image" of which no American need be ashamed.

  J. William Fulbright

  Land, America, Wish

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• The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it to the science and art of many societies.

  J. William Fulbright

  Art, Technology, Culture

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• Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship.

  J. William Fulbright

  Mean, Compassion, World

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• The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life. It's the only activity that gives me some hope that the human race won't commit suicide, though I still wouldn't count on it.

  J. William Fulbright

  Suicide, Race, Giving

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• The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.

  J. William Fulbright

  Sympathy, Education, Hope

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• It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own needs and aspirations, most of the citizens of big counties-those, that is, that have the status of being "powers" in the world-far from being self-centered or materialistic as they are commonly credited with being, the ordinary citizen and his elected representative all too often turn out to be romantics, ready and eager to sacrifice programs of health, education and welfare for the power and pride of the nation.

  J. William Fulbright

  Pride, Sacrifice, Government

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• Education is the best means-probably the only means-by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity about each other's behavior and intentions. It is the means by which Russians and Americans can come to understand each others' aspirations for peace and how the satisfactions of everyday life may be achieved.

  J. William Fulbright

  Mean, Objectivity, Everyday

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• Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent behavior seems to vary directly with his perception of others as individual humans with human motives and feelings, whereas his capacity for barbarism seems related to his perception of an adversary in abstract terms, as the embodiment, that is, of some evil design or ideology.

  J. William Fulbright

  Communication, Men, People

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• ....Man's struggle to be rational about himself, about his relationship to his own society and to other peoples and nations involves a constant search for understanding among all peoples and all cultures-a search that can only be effective when learning is pursued on a worldwide basis.

  J. William Fulbright

  Struggle, Men, Understanding

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• The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail in directing the enormous power of human knowledge to the enrichment of our own lives and the shaping of a rational and civilized world order....It is the task of education, more than any other instrument of foreign policy to help close the dangerous gap between the economic and technological interdependence of the people of the world and their psychological, political and spiritual alienation.

  J. William Fulbright

  Spiritual, Order, Years

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• With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war with Japan, in August of that year. A number of considerations, of course, entered into my decision to introduce the bill, growing from my own experience as a Rhodes scholar and the experiences our government had had with the first Word War debts, [Herbert] Hoover's efforts in establishing the Belgian-American Education Foundation after World War I, [and] the Boxer Rebellion indemnity.

  J. William Fulbright

  War, Government, Japan

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• Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Passion, Learning, Add

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• Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  World, This World

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

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• The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

  James A. Baldwin

  Education, Paradox, Conscious

  "A Talk to Teachers". James A. Baldwin's address to a group of educators (October 1963), first published in the Saturday Review (December 1963), later quoted in "James Baldwin’s Lesson for Teachers in a Time of Turmoil" by Clint Smith, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2017.

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• The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

  Mark Twain

  Teacher, Learning, Mean

  Mark Twain (1929). “Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: What is man? and other essays”

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• Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.

  John F. Kennedy

  Strong, Health, Skills

  "Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American". Sports Illustrated, Volume 13, Issue 26, pp. 14-17, December 26, 1960.

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