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.
Quotes By Gregory Bateson
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Science like art religion commerce warfare and even sleep is based on...
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It is I claim nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man...
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We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.
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Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all...
Quotes About Learning
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We were learning together. We'd go to various clinics and try to learn as...
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No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the...
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For me French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a...
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For a small child there is no division between playing and learning between...
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Father in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin I will be a...
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I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the...
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When Honor's sun declines and Wealth takes wings Then Learning shines the...
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Learning while at school that the charge for the education of girls was the...
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Learning disabilities cannot be cured but they can be treated successfully...