Education Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

Depended on the soldier. To relax, most of them put on headphones or played video games. Later in the war some of the younger…

— George Packer

I feel like I studied anthropology in college for a reason.

— Zal Batmanglij

Study men, not historians.

— Harry S Truman

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the…

— Anonymous

“Anthropology at that time was in transition, moving from the study of men dead and gone to the study of living people, and slowly…

— Lily King

“I would next like to work in anthropology; for here, if I may say so, I believe I have much to contribute-indeed, I believe…

— Evan Dara

“Nearly everyone had a father or uncles who had fought in World War II or Korea, or both, and many had grandfathers who had…

— Mark Bowden

“Studying anthropology tends t change the way you look at the world. It leaves a distinctive chip in your brain, or lens over your…

— Gillian Tett

I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what…

— Clifford Geertz

“The classical anthropological question, What is man?—"how like an angel, this quintessence of dust!"—is not now asked by anthropologists. Instead, they commence with a…

— Paul Goodman

War is a crucial, deeply ingrained part of human history. It has to be understood.

— Margaret MacMillan