Education is a slow moving but powerful force
Interpretation
Education takes time to yield results, but its impact is significant.
The quote by J. William Fulbright emphasizes that while education may progress at a gradual pace, its influence is profound and far-reaching. It suggests that the true power of education lies not in its immediacy, but in its ability to transform individuals and societies over time, leading to lasting change and development.
In practice
In a graduation speech to motivate students about their future.
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.
The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations.
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.
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.
A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.
Far too often, girls are not given the space and opportunities they need to achieve their full potential.
We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them 'feel bad.' But, hey, if they've done something wrong, they should feel bad. Kids with a sense of responsibility, not entitlement, who know when to experience gratitude and humility, will be better at navigating the social shoals of college.
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