Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations

There is nothing obscure about the objectives of educational exchange. Its purpose is to acquaint Americans with the world as it is and to acquaint students and scholars from many lands with America as it is-not as we wish it were or as we might wish foreigners to see it, but exactly as it is-which by my reckoning is an "image" of which no American need be ashamed.

Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them with wisdom.

It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.

Education is a slow moving but powerful force