Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and despite mockery from the world. . . .
Interpretation
Education should empower youth to pursue what they believe is right, regardless of difficulties.
Kurt Hahn emphasizes that true education should prepare young people not just academically, but also morally and ethically, allowing them to act on their beliefs in the face of challenges such as adversity, doubt, monotony, and societal criticism. It portrays education as a tool that should cultivate resilience and the courage to uphold one's convictions.
In practice
To inspire students during a graduation speech about the importance of standing up for their beliefs.
The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends to change the balance of power in a youth's inner life with the result that compassion can become the master motive.
The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.
Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results.
I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember
While my parents never had the time or money to secure university education themselves, they were adamant that their children should. In comfort and in love, we were taught the joys of knowledge and of work well done. I only regret that neither my mother nor my father could live to see the day I would accept the Nobel Prize.
The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge, and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area. The rest of the population has little idea of the advances that are being made or the excitement they are generating.
Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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