Mission
According to its Web site, the Social Science Research Council leads innovation, builds interdisciplinary and international networks, and focuses research on important public issues. It is guided by the belief that justice, prosperity, and democracy all require better understanding of complex social, cultural, economic, and political processes. Its key constituents comprise practitioners, policymakers, and academic researchers in all the social sciences, related professions, and the humanities and natural sciences. Its focus is worldwide, and its purpose is to mobilize existing knowledge for new problems, link research to practice and policy, strengthen individual and institutional capacities for learning, and enhance public access to information.
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“... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal “the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry one of those candidates [for the ministry].” He said he didn’t know but it was. And when at last that same girl announced her desire and intention to go to college it was received with about the same incredulity and dismay as if a brass button on one of those candidate’s coats had propounded a new method for squaring the circle or trisecting the arc.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)
“Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)
“Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story—a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)