"The current business model for language education is the student pays â€” in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone $500. The problem with this business model is that 95 percent of the worldâ€™s population doesnâ€™t have $500."

-- Luis von Ahn

#Population Quotes #World Quotes #Stones Quotes

“When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone.”

Source : Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.55, A&C Black
“Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get destiny to squeeze you in.”
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
“Let your life be your music and let your music be your life.”
“the truly beneficent mind looks upon every child of sorrow as their relation, and entitled to their assistance ...”
“No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled.”
“Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.”
“As a country [USA], we can attract more talented people to teaching by raising awareness of educational inequity and getting the public to understand from individual classrooms, schools, and cities that this is an issue that can be solved.”

Source : Source: www.economist.com

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