Mike Krzyzewski Quotes

Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.

When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

We need to define what culture is. Every human being lives within a culture, and culture means "To grow in." It means to literally fall, and this is exactly what I believe is happening all around us right now.

I don't personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.

If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?

Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same kind of process by which we learn our common values. Purely personal tastes, indeed, can only survive in a culture which tolerates them, that is, which has a common value that private tastes of certain kinds should be allowed.

We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.

The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.

I believe the public schools are the greatest cultural influence in this country.

I'm not against other cultures, but I believe what the Germans call a "leitkultur", a dominant culture that we should have, even in our constitution state, what our dominant culture is and that our laws should apply to that culture and to no other one.

I understand culture. I am the nucleus.

Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking, and feeling from the older to the younger.

In organizations (or even in a society) where culture is weak, you need an abundance of heavy, precise rules and processes.

I'm opposed to wearing headscarves in public places. That's not France. There's something I just don't understand: the people who come to France, why would they want to change France, to live in France the same way they lived back home?

Culture is another dimension.

Culture is coded wisdom

I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized.

By various agencies, unintentional and designed, a society transforms uninitiated and seemingly alien beings into robust trustees of its own resources and ideals. Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process.

Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and discrimination from the hearts and minds of white America. The other wand you could wave across the ghettoes and barrios of America and infuse the inhabitants with Japanese or Jewish values, respect for learning, and ambition. ... I suggest that the best wand for society and for those who live in the ghettoes and barrios would be the second wand.

We should only admit into America those who share our values and respect our people.

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

As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.