"The experience of helping a fellow man in……" — Kurt Hahn
"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."
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12 Quotes by Kurt Hahn
Kurt Hahn has 12 quotes on this site.
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There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest…
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Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate.
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I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an…
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There is more in you than you think.
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The passion of rescue reveals the highest dynamic of the human soul.
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There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through…
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Expeditions can greatly contribute towards building strength of character. Joseph Conrad in Lord Jim tells us that it is necessary…
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Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner…
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There are three ways of trying to win the young. There is persuasion, there is compulsion, and there is attraction.…
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Your disability is your opportunity.
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We are all better than we know. If only we can be brought to realise this, we may never be…
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