Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. William Fulbright

Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations

J. William Fulbright

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....

Hugh Mackay

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

Homer

Young people are thoughtless as a rule.

J. P. Morgan

You can't unscramble eggs.

J. William Fulbright

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

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.

Gary Hamel

It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.

William James

There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life.

Sai Baba

Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.

Sai Baba

The nation can prosper and be happy only when education develops in an atmosphere of Truth, Love and Reverence.

Sai Baba

The universe is a great university.

Sai Baba

Character is the most precious gift of education.

Sai Baba

Education should ennoble the students, but instead it is debasing them. Instead of shaping the young into diamonds, it is turning them into coals. It is not bringing transformation in them, It is not bestowing wisdom.

Sai Baba

Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone.

Sai Baba

True education consists in the cultivation of the heart.

Sai Baba

Real education should enable one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible.

Saint Augustine

I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

William Vickrey

Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in terms of an enhanced quality of life.

Zig Ziglar

What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.

Sandra Cisneros

If we got an educational program going, we could tell people, "Instead of butter, use avocado." That's something we eat, it has the good fat, and it has a good texture, and it tastes better. Just imagine if you substituted that. Or if we switched to olive oil, the extra virgin olive oil, we could still have our taquitos, but put a little oil on them and put them in the oven and bake them.

Wendell Berry

If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree.

William Penn

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

Zig Ziglar

Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect's mind.

Morgan Freeman

I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.

Jose Marti

The only way to be totally free is through education.

Kenneth Clark

The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of their masters.

Napoleon Hill

The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.

Jack Welch

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.

Harvey Mackay

There's a place in the world for any business that takes care of its customers-after the sale.

Mahatma Gandhi

The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.

James S. Coleman

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.

James Russell Lowell

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.