Quote by Gregory Bateson
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the fut

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. – Gregory Bateson

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In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. – Gregory Bateson

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Learning
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. – Gregory Bateson

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Education
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It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. – Gregory Bateson

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Future
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Future
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Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future. – Blanka Vlasic

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Future

I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures. – Jane Smiley

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Future

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth. – Maurice Strong

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Future

Id love to do more action stuff, in the future. – Ashley Tisdale

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Future

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