Global Learning Quotes

I have always been intrigued by other cultures, and traveling to foreign lands has always been a part of my personal passion for learning about our world.

London's top colleges attract the best young talent from around the world; they're truly a national asset.

We want to encourage foreign students to come to our universities - to study, research and teach.

Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.

The United States is a great, great country, but it's not the only country, and we can learn a great deal beyond our own shores.

I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.

Of course, the Globe will be an international educational center as well as a theater.

In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

The 21st century is the century of knowledge. Knowledge, science and education will have the power and strength to embrace the entire universe.

We show our faces to support the billions of young people who suffer a lack of education. We show our faces to honour the potential of every young individual on this planet.

There are no national frontiers to learning.

Our youths are constantly trying to learn everything the West has to teach, but what is newest in the West has existed in China for thousands of years.

We can learn from all around the world. Germany, particularly, has been successful with rooftop solar generation. Other countries like Norway and Sweden have done work on it. Some of them have done offshore wind projects. So we're looking at learning from the best from all across the world. My approach is to get the best out of each one.

Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.

We already have a professor who's using an online social network of MIT alums to help educate students in programming. Just imagine expanding that in Facebook-fashion to tens or hundreds of millions of people around the world.

It's important that we have a global perspective and look abroad and learn from our neighbors.

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

Our goal is to see Big History become a normal part of high school curricula. I'd love to see it being taught in lots of languages. A global course.

I went to a high school that taught me to be more worldly. The whole curriculum was very globally based. We learned a lot about other cultures and reflected on them.

I positively encourage time abroad to anybody. It's worth taking the time to suss out which countries in the world are well funded for your subject and look for opportunities there.

I have studied at the school of the world.

I foresee the Globe attracting scholars from all over the world.

There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice.