Education Is A Slow Moving

The Program Further Aims To Make The Benefits Of American Culture And Technology Available To The World And To Enrich American Life By Exposing It To The Science And Art Of Many Societies.

The Essence Of Intercultural Education Is The Acquisition Of Empathy-the Ability To See The World As Others See It, And To Allow For The Possibility That Others May See Something We Have Failed To See, Or May See It More Accurately. The Simple Purpose Of The Exchange Program...is To Erode The Culturally Rooted Mistrust That Sets Nations Against One Another. The Exchange Program Is Not A Panacea But An Avenue Of Hope.

....man's Struggle To Be Rational About Himself, About His Relationship To His Own Society And To Other Peoples And Nations Involves A Constant Search For Understanding Among All Peoples And All Cultures-a Search That Can Only Be Effective When Learning Is Pursued On A Worldwide Basis.

The Biggest Lesson I Learned From Vietnam Is Not To Trust [our Own] Government Statements.

Maturity Requires A Final Accommodation Between Our Aspirations And Our Limitations.