Education Quotes

"To understand India requires unlearning Western assumptions."

"To know ourselves, we must know how others know themselves."

"The researcher's own culture is the greatest obstacle to understanding."

"Comparison is not judgment but mutual illumination."

"Culture is learned behavior transmitted from generation to generation."

"All societies have mechanisms for passing on culture."

"Culture transmits accumulated human wisdom."

"We are all anthropologists of our own culture, though most of us don't realize it."

"The study of others is ultimately the study of ourselves."

"The purpose of anthropology is not to judge other cultures but to understand them."

"The study of others teaches us about ourselves."

"The role of the anthropologist is to translate between different worlds of meaning."

"The study of anthropology is a form of self-knowledge."

"Understanding others requires a radical openness to difference."

"We study primitive peoples to understand what we have lost, not what we have gained."

"Education that does not question is mere indoctrination."

"Language is the most important means of human communication"

"The study of culture teaches us the nature of ourselves"

"Success in research comes from listening more than speaking"

"Every ritual contains the accumulated wisdom of a people"

"The anthropologist's task is to make the strange familiar and the familiar strange"

"Understanding other cultures requires abandoning our own classificatory schemes."

"Cultural analysis requires the humility to question one's own categories."

"Understanding another culture means learning its systems of classification."

"Humans are born into an existing web of meaning, and their task is to learn its patterns and participate in its perpetuation."

"To understand a culture, one must immerse oneself completely in its particularities without imposing external categories."

"Understanding another culture requires bracketing your own assumptions and entering into its logic."

"The study of culture teaches us that there are radically different ways of being human."

"The task of anthropology is to multiply the ways in which we can conceive of what it is to be human."

"The liminal phase is where culture speaks most truthfully about itself through metaphor and symbol."