Culture Quote by George Sarton

A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

— T. S. Eliot

It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could be called…

— Richard Hofstadter

We have something special...a culture which we do not think of as something for the elite, but as something which is accessible to practically…

— Frederick Lewis Allen

In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of…

— John Rawls

It is essential to rear a generation at the very top of society that has all the qualities needed to lead and give the…

— Lee Kuan Yew

But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become so general…

— John Adams

Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and…

— Talcott Parsons

“Before any great things are accomplished, he wrote to a correspondent, a memorable change must be made in the system of education and knowledge…

— David McCullough

To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather than governmental.…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any great things…

— David McCullough

National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.

— Confucius