Quotes About Culture

We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.

If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.

Education and prevention are not enough when there is a culture of fraud.

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

We'll build new ties of trade and of commerce, culture and education that unleash the potential of the Iraqi people.

The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.

We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.

By nature all people are alike, but by education become different

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.

Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.

Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.

We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn't encouraged - it is barely tolerated.

I'm 100 percent Jewish by blood, but by education I'm nothing. By affiliation I'm nothing.

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.

To defend a country, you need an army, but to defend a civilization, you need education...

I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.