“I created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation back in 1997 for the purpose of going in and improving the living conditions of my people on the African continent, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo where I came from. Our first mission was to go and build a new hospital. Our next mission was to build a school.” PeopleFirstsSchoolPurposeNextConditionsFoundationDemocraticMissionsHospitalsRepublicContinentsImprovingCongoAfrican ContinentDemocratic RepublicLiving Conditions Author:Dikembe Mutombo
“It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.” IfsThinkingNeedsKindMeanStoriesSchoolCoursesMistakeEducationStudySeeingConditionsDutyHabitEasierHolyFoundationStructureWingsAddEducationalGravesCuriousEnjoymentInquiryCoercion Author:Albert Einstein
“History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.” IfsWholeFactsValuesKnowledgeConditionsGoodnessDegreesElementsFoundationHistoricalValuablePosseHistorical Facts Book:Contemplation and Action, 1902-14 Source: Contemplation and Action, 1902-14
“Apologys for self-evident Truths can never have any effect on those who have so little Sense as to deny them. They are the Foundation of all Reasoning, and the only just Bottom on which Men can proceed in convincing one another of the Truth: and by consequence whoever is capable of denying them, is not in a condition to be informed.” MenLittlesSelfAtheismConditionsEffectsCapableConsequenceFoundationBottomDenyPositive AtheismReasoningEvidentConvincing Author:Anthony Collins
“Industry is not only the instrument of improvement, but the foundation of pleasure. He who is a stranger to it may possess, but cannot enjoy, for it is labor only which gives relish to pleasure. It is the indispensable condition of possessing a sound mind in a sound body, and it is the appointed vehicle of every good to man.” MenGivingMindMayBodyEnjoySoundPleasureConditionsIndustryLaborFoundationInstrumentsVery GoodStrangerImprovementVehicleIndispensablePossessingRelishSound MindSound Body Author:Robert Blair
“So long as the great majority of the poor in any country are inert and are laboring without any hope in this world, the whole associated life of that community rests on an equivocal foundation. Its moral and social order is tied to an economic system which starves and mutilates the great majority of the population, and under such conditions its religion necessarily becomes a spiritual drug, administered for the purpose of subduing the popular discontent and relieving the popular misery.” WorldLongCountryWholeSpiritualPurposeOrderSocialCommunityPoorMoralEconomicConditionsThis WorldDrugFoundationMajorityMiseryPopulationTiedDiscontentEconomic SystemsSocial Order Author:Herbert Croly