Millard Drexler Quotes

People put 'study abroad' on their resume. I actually like when they don't study abroad because that means they aren't entitled.

I was lucky to move around different cultures at an early age and have experience of different lifestyles.

We want our men and women to be closely attuned to the cultures in which they operate and to speak the local language.

There is no substitute for the riches gained on a lifetime basis by the young American who studies or works abroad.

In college, my wife did a study abroad in Nairobi, and I did the exact same program in Cape Town. For me, the experience of being in that other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.

Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.

Cross-cultural learning and studying abroad can be transformative.

People have asked me about what it's like to work in Pakistan and abroad. It's such a healthy cultural exchange.

I have eight years of experience in Spain.

Breaking down barriers, succeeding away from home, living in another country, another culture, different football, makes you much stronger.

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

The benefits of studying abroad are almost endless.

There's a lot of stuff like that that American's don't know and since a lot of Americans don't have a passport, I'll get a passport for them and since a lot of Americans don't know what a war looks like thirty, forty years later and it's still doing damage.

My dad's American, and my mom's French. I lived in France for the first 18 years of my life, then came here to go to school at the College of William and Mary. I studied marketing. I really didn't know what I wanted to do, so I thought that's what I should do - study business - because it would give me the best chance to find work.

I have a one-question language test that people who have lived abroad do better on than those who studied in a classroom. Try my test yourself: In a foreign language you've studied, how do you say 'doorknob'?

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.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

If you can speak English, and you can get a place on a proper course at a proper university, you can come to study in Britain.

The kids think we're wacky. Mum and Dad are in showbiz - they don't know any other way. They've grown up travelling all over the world and are getting a worldly education. My son is 12 and he can speak eloquently on religions and cultures.

While my father was a diplomat rather than a business person, I count him as a critically important formative role model. He was comfortable living and working all around the world, wherever he was assigned.

I do think New York prepares you for the crossection of personalities and realities on display when you leave the country, and I'd live somewhere else if I had a reason or burning-the-the-point-of-discomfort desire to do so.

Americans' scandalous incompetence in foreign languages also explains our dangerously inadequate understanding of world affairs.

Executives in Hollywood are missing a lot because they don't want to watch other cultures.

When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.

The benefits of studying abroad are huge. You can pick up a new language, develop a love for another culture, and pick up new skills, hobbies and work experience to boost your CV.