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 mockery from the world. . . .
Interpretation
Education should empower youth to pursue what they believe is right, regardless of difficulties.
Kurt Hahn emphasizes that true education should prepare young people not just academically, but also morally and ethically, allowing them to act on their beliefs in the face of challenges such as adversity, doubt, monotony, and societal criticism. It portrays education as a tool that should cultivate resilience and the courage to uphold one's convictions.
In practice
To inspire students during a graduation speech about the importance of standing up for their beliefs.
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.
All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don't invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don't invest in them, we lose.
Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.
The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore.
You are at some point exposed to a wonderful story, and you really want to know what happens next, so you learn to read in order to find out.
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