Kurt Hahn Quotes

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• There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will…
• Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate.
• I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit,…
• There is more in you than you think.
• 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…
• The passion of rescue reveals the highest dynamic of the human soul.
• There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life.
• Expeditions can greatly contribute towards building strength of character. Joseph Conrad in Lord Jim tells us that it is necessary for a youth to experience…
• 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…
• There are three ways of trying to win the young. There is persuasion, there is compulsion, and there is attraction. You can preach at them:…
• Your disability is your opportunity.
• We are all better than we know. If only we can be brought to realise this, we may never be prepared to settle for anything…

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