"The virtue and the strength of UWC..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela
The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers of habit and opening broader vistas of experience for both pupils and educationalists.
More by Nelson Mandela
“If you make one gift this year, make it the gift of knowledge.”
“Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.”
“Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.”
More on Education
“I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
“I've had the honor of speaking at many commencements.”
“The head cannot take in more than the seat can endure.”
More on Innovation
“Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.”
“Everybody who works in the computer industry is in an industry that didn't exist twenty-five years ago. We are talking on cell phones, and there were no such things. All the people who work for Nextel and so on, those are lost jobs that became found jobs. We are in a constant state of changing, and there are numerous opportunities in a time like this, but people are still going back to the fear.”
“Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.”