Civilization Quote by Vincent Massey

Evolution is too important not to be the root, the trunk and the canopy of popular culture. And too significant not to be the…

— Steve Fowler

What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of barbarism and…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

— P. J. O'Rourke

This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding…

— R.K. Narayan

“Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.”

— Ken Robinson

Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates…

— Muriel Barbery

Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances…

— H. G. Wells

Education is the transmission of civilization.

— Will Durant

Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who…

— George Jonas

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

— Jean Piaget

The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail in directing…

— J. William Fulbright