Charles Darwin Quotes

A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its members the benefits of socially accumulated knowledge.

Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.

Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.

Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

We must bring it to pass ... if we have the peace that all the youth now in England, born of free men who have the means that they can apply to it, may be devoted to learning ... until such time as they can read well what is written in England.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind.

In effect, to follow, not to force, the public inclination,—to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislation.

A city cannot survive if it does not educate its young.

Of all our institutions public education is the most important. Everything depends on it, the present and the future.

Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

If we are to make any real, speedy and substantial progress, we must earnestly tackle this question and bring our educational policy and program on the lines suited to the genius of our people, consonant with our history and culture, and having regard to the modern conditions and vast developments that have taken place all over the world. .

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

Generations of tradition and hard work are required to form a nation of traders.

… a country's laws are written upon paper, and that its customs are engraved upon brass. One may play with the one, but not with the other. It is less risky for a stranger to dance upon our Constitution in the public square than to affront one of our solidified customs. The one is merely eminently respectable, the other is sacred.

Education proceeds ultimately from the patterns furnished by institutions, customs, and laws.

Victorian values…were the values when our country became great.

A good education alters the judgment and manners…

Laws are often made to express collective ethical principles, to establish a climate of opinion …

The good education of youth has been esteemed by wise men in all ages as the surest foundation of happiness.