Paulo Freire Quotes

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

I get much more information about the rest of the world from people who are not Americans. You get a distance from America that is useful for a journalist; useful for my perspective on the world.

I've been able to look at the world differently from three continents practically. I've always lived between India and the U.S. When I married Mahmood I became a daughter-in-law of Africa. That really changed my worldview. I can see it from so many perspectives.

One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay in a really different country, like Bangladesh or Senegal? Time abroad also leaves one more aware of the complex prism of suspicion through which the United States is often viewed.

I grew up in New York City, but the rest of the world was a very big part of my upbringing.

The world itself is already a great textbook.

I consider myself a man of the world; I connect very strongly with Nigeria, but I see that the work exists all over the world, and I will go where the work is.

A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is for.

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think in a global sense. Cinema is a global endeavour. My roots are in England but my endeavours are worldwide.

We're from Rockford, Illinois, but we've always thought international.

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

Spending years between America and Israel, I have gained a global view, and the planet is my home.

What I'd love to do is work with kids in the U.S. to raise their awareness and encourage them to be global citizens. We're all connected these days; we can listen to the same music as kids all around the world and share our ideas.

I am quite international. My background, born in Turkey. My family is a Jewish family from Iran, so I went from Turkey to Iran to Israel, and then grew up in Italy and ended up in U.S. for graduate school. So I tend to look at things from an international perspective, and I think that gives you a little bit of a broader view of what's going on.

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.

When I was growing up, I don't think I knew any other child who had been out of Sri Lanka.

I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world.

I grew up abroad, so I would love to have my child grow up the same way and experience the world.

I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way.

Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.

My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.

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 have a big bias to the people who understand global aspects.