Quotations

• "He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
• "Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• "To have another language is to possess a second soul." (Charlemagne)
• "Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we think about." (Benjamin Lee Whorf)
• "Our linguistic and cultural myopia is losing us friends, business and respect in the world." (J. William Fulbright)
• "The world is a book and if you don't travel, you will experience only one page."
• "The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language."
• "Through learning a language, we learn about culture. Through learning about culture, we learn respect for others. Through learning respect for others, we can hope for peace."
• "Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages." (Neil Simon)
• "El que habla dos lenguas vale por dos." - "The person who speaks two languages is worth two." (Spanish quote)
• "Internationalism does not mean the end of individual nations. Orchestras don't mean the end of violins." (Golda Meir)

Education

• "Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I will understand." (Chinese Proverb)

• "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."

• "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." (William G. McAdo)

• "Those who dare to teach must never cease to learn." (John Cotton Dana)
  
  
• "There is no nobility in being better than someone else. The only nobility is being better than who you were the day before." (Harry K. Wong)

• "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." (Albert Einstein)

• "By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn." (Latin Proverb)

• "Cooperate with each other, compete only against yourself."

• "Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another." (John Dewey)

• "Education is not the filling of a vessel, but the kindling of a flame." - Socrates

• “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” - Nelson Mandela