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.
I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.
America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.
To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.
If you look at other countries, you'll find lots of girls doing physics, engineering, and science. It's something to do with the kind of culture we have in the English-speaking world about what's appropriate for each of the two sexes.
Television is a non graded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in doing away wtih the idea of sequenece and continuity in education, television undermines the idea that sequence and continuity have anything to do with thought itself.
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