Quote by Gregory Bateson
Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature

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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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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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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Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. – Gregory Bateson

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Repeticio est mater studiorum. – Thomas Aquinas

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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. – Robert Frost

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I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question. – Isaiah Mustafa

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Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view. – Robert M. Hutchins

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