Kurt Hahn

There is more in you than you think.

— Kurt Hahn

The passion of rescue reveals the highest dynamic of the human soul.

— Kurt Hahn

Your disability is your opportunity.

— Kurt Hahn

The worth of a faith does not consist in the clarity with which it is stated but in the steadfastness with which…

— Kurt Hahn

Without the instinct for adventure, any civilization, however enlightened; any state, however well-ordered, will wilt and wither.

— Kurt Hahn

We are all better than we know. If only we can be brought to realise this, we may never be prepared to…

— Kurt Hahn

“There is more in us than we know if we could be made to see it; perhaps, for the rest of our…

— Kurt Hahn

Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate.

— Kurt Hahn

It is a sin of the soul to force young people into opinions ... but it is culpable neglect not to impel…

— Kurt Hahn

“The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote)”

— Kurt Hahn

The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give…

— Kurt Hahn

Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite…

— Kurt Hahn

I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit,…

— Kurt Hahn

Whenever you have to deal with a boy who is a rebel, remember that you must not fail at some time or…

— Kurt Hahn

There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey…

— Kurt Hahn

There are three ways of trying to win the young. There is persuasion, there is compulsion, and there is attraction. You can…

— Kurt Hahn

Expeditions can greatly contribute towards building strength of character. Joseph Conrad in Lord Jim tells us that it is necessary for a…

— Kurt Hahn

What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they…

— Kurt Hahn

There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization.…

— Kurt Hahn