Mary Catherine Bateson
Quotes
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Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
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The need to sustain human growth should be a matter of concern for the entire
society, even more fundamental than the problem of sustaining productivity.
This, surely, is the deepest sense of homemaking, whether in a factory or a
college or a household.
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Education, whether for
success or failure, is never finished. Building and sustaining the settings in
which individuals can grow and unfold, not "kept in their place," but empowered
to become all they can be, is not the only task of parents and teachers, but the
basis of management and political leadership--and simple friendship.
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Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together
under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.
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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of
every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.
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Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together
under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.
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Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place
from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without
metaphors.
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The Christian tradition was passed on to me
as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed
from the richness of individual lives.
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When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity
in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship.
Even protectiveness and benevolence toward the poor, toward minorities, and
especially toward women have involved equating them with children.
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• Each quotation
page in this collection and the entire collection are © Jone Johnson Lewis
1997-2004. This is an informal collection -- if you need citations for the
original source, I don't have those available unless they're listed with the
quotes.
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