Education must, then, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthen...er of the will to explore them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The family is both a biological and a cultural group. It is biologic in sense that it is the best arrangement for begetting childr...en and protecting them while they are dependent. It is a cultural group because it brings into intimate association persons of different age and sex who renew and reshape the folkways of the society into which they are born. The household serves as a "cultural workshop" for the transmission of old traditions and for the creation of new social values.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be ...hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission a...s he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Description is revelation. It is not The thing described, nor false facsimile.... It is an artificial thing that exists, In its own seeming, plainly visible, Yet not too closely the double of our lives, Intenser than any actual life could be....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God gave the righteous man a certificate entitling him to food and raiment, but the unrighteous man found a facsimile of the same ...in God's coffers, and appropriated it, and obtained food and raiment like the former. It is one of the most extensive systems of counterfeiting that the world has seen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed through my life, revolution, starvation, devaluation of currency and terror, ep...idemics, emigration; I have seen the great ideologies of the masses grow and spread out before my eyes. Fascism in Italy, National Socialism in Germany, Bolshevism in Russia, and, above all, that archpestilence, nationalism, which poisoned our flourishing European culture. I had to be a defenseless, powerless witness to the most inconceivable setback of humanity, its return to a barbarism we had thought had long since passed into oblivion with its deliberate and programmatic antihumane dogma.... (We had to witness) wars ... concentration camps, tortures, mass pillaging and bombings of defenseless cities ... bestialities (which had not been known for fifty generations).... But, paradoxically, I also saw the same human race rise to technical and intellectual heights never even dreamt of ... the conquest of the air through the airplane, the one-second transmission of the human word across the globe and, thus the conquest of space, the splitting of the atom, the conquest of the most treacherous diseases ... almost daily progress in making possible what was still impossible yesterday. Never before our time did humanity as a whole act more satanically and never did it accomplish such godlike deeds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »