Acorns Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“The equating of primitive culture with backwardness has been so ingrained in the popular mind that even so-called civilized Indians on the lowest, most…

— Scott Wallace

We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should…

— Chris Hedges

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

— Vincent Massey

What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-concept, not…

— Kenny Smith

An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism.…

— Jeremy Narby

“Too often, it seems to me, in missionary and educational work among underdeveloped races, people yield to the temptation of doing that which was…

— Booker T. Washington

I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same…

— Serj Tankian

The stories of our Indigenous people have shaped the very foundational fabric of our modern day. And so much of that is just not…

— Lily Gladstone

“For there is another truth: to the extent that other cultures have failed to adopt at least major aspects of Western ways, they remain…

— Rodney Stark

The problem is that those of us sympathetic with the plight of indigenous people view them as quaint and colorful, but somehow reduced to…

— Wade Davis

We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.

— Evelyn Boyd Granville

“Education is the reason why we behave like human beings. We are hardly born human. We are born ridiculous, malodorous animals. We become human.…

— Will Durant