Helsinki, Finland

HAAGA-HELIA eMBA in Service Excellence

Language: English Studies in English
University website: www.haaga-helia.fi
Excellence
Excellence is a talent or quality which is unusually good and so surpasses ordinary standards. It is also used as a standard of performance as measured e.g. through economic indicators.
Excellence
How miserable is the condition of men when the better a thing is, the further it recedes from our sight and the less it is recognized.
Philip Melanchthon, "In Praise of Eloquence," as translated by C. Salazar, in Orations on Philosophy and Education (Cambridge University Press: 1999), p. 62
Excellence
As I said in another connection: "An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water".
John W. Gardner, Excellence, Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too? (1961), p. 86.
Excellence
Zahlreich sind die Lehrkanzeln, aber selten die weisen und edlen Lehrer. Zahlreich und groß sind die Hörsäle, doch wenig zahlreich die jungen Menschen, die ehrlich nach Wahrheit und Gerechtigkeit dürsten. Zahlreich spendet die Natur ihre Dutzendware, aber das Feinere erzeugt sie selten.
Numerous are the academic chairs, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Numerous and large are the lecture halls, but far from numerous the young men who genuinely thirst for truth and justice. Numerous are the wares that nature produces by the dozen, but her choice products are few. Albert Einstein, “On Academic Freedom,” Ideas and Opinions (1954) Albert Einstein, “On Academic Freedom,” Ideas and Opinions (1954)
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