Jonathan Leschinski

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

“The challenge to which these two groups responded was the interdependence of human kind, North and South, Rich and Pool, Industrialised and Rural, in the aftermath of the Second World War. To the United World College group it called for the establishment of a new kind of school where young people of all nations and backgrounds could live and learn together at the most formative period of their adolescence and so form those ties of friendship and understanding that would last them through their lives”
― Prince Charles HRH the Prince of Wales

“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”
― Kurt Hahn

“He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act”
― Plato