A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action,
for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills
our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified
with name and form.
Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that
we do carry in our genes are certain capacities-- the capacity
to learn to walk upright, to use our brains, to speak, to relate
to our fellow men, to construct and use tools, to explore
the universe, and to express that exploration in religion,
in art, in science, in philosophy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Margaret Mead
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