14 Quotes by Kurt Hahn

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

There is more in you than you think.

Your disability is your opportunity.

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 be unwilling to settle for less.

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, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion.

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

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

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 less.

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: that is a hook without a worm. You can say, You must volunteer, and that is of the devil. You can tell them, You are needed. That appeal hardly ever fails.