I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Today, education does not give you the wisdom and the understanding; it only indoctrinates you to believe something. So the mind knows very less but accepts so many things; it may be science, it may be technology, it may be anything.
Anyone who believes that it is possible to educate the will without cultivating the insight that enlivens it is succumbing to illusion. Clear-sightedness on this point is a task for present-day pedagogy, but it can come only from a life-filled understanding of the whole human being.
The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.