Mentor Advice
Question
Why is it important to study abroad?
25 Replies from Mentors
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Gaddi Holguin VasquezFormer Ambassador/ RepresentativeUnited Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, ItalyGaddi Vasquez described an experience he had in Morocco when a man told him he didn’t look like an American because of “…the color of your skin. You don't look like an American.” Vasquez said that encounter “gave me the opportunity to talk about how my grandparents had come to the United States from Mexico, and how we had become part of the great fabric that makes our nation strong.” Studying abroad is an amazing opportunity to showcase the great diversity that makes up the United States.
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Alfred J. VerrecchiaChairman of the BoardHasbro, IncGood communication skills is a critical success factor in today’s global economy… [You] must have ability to collaborate and communicate with a large network of providers, inventors, manufacturers and peers Worldwide.
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Andrew YoungFormer ChairmanGoodWorks InternationalWe are interdependent and dependent on one another. We have got to find a way to make this whole planet work… It is a wonderful world. We have the resources to solve almost any problem. In America, if we can conceive it and believe it, we can achieve it. Yet, we are never totally self-sufficient. This world was not our creation. We are just a part of it. We have to approach things humbly, and we have to always be open for new things. My grandmother used to say all the time, ‘The world will make a way out of no way.
(taken from White, William, Young shares wit, wisdom with Auburn audience,Opelika Auburn News, January 27, 2006) -
JuanParent of Study Abroad StudentLoyola Marymount UniversityYou can never learn too much. Knowledge does not get in the way. Anywhere she would have chosen to study would have been fine, so long as she left. The idea of getting yourself lost in a culture that is foreign is something we cannot teach her, it is something she must learn on her own.
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Fareed ZakariaFormer EditorNewsweekThe most important thing that schools can do is to make people aware that understanding the world is very much part of the requirement of being an educated person. There should be some shame attached to not being more aware of the world, not having some mastery of foreign language.
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