Quote by Gregory Bateson
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to rep

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

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Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. – Abigail Adams

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Learning about all those different things psychologically – about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it. – Richie Sambora

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