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.
We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It's experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teachβit is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
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