Frank Macfarlane Burnet Quotes

Education is the transmission of civilization.

The very first instrument for the improvement of the condition of men is knowledge.

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

History is dependent on the new generation to write a new chapter.

In India, knowledge has always been considered more valuable than power, fame or riches. In our tradition, educational institutions are respected as temples of learning.

I think it is so important to pass down knowledge and information to younger generations.

To me, education is not a commodity. It is a public good, essential to any society with a claim to being civilised.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

I'm against ignorance.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.

Where Schools are not vigorously and Honourable Encouraged, whole Colonies will sink apace; into a Degenerate and Contemptible Condition, and at last become horribly Barbarous

Universities are the temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.

Universities are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry

The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of a high standard of excellence, inculcated by the ablest and best men, embodied in the laws, customs and traditions of the nation, and enforced by public opinion.

Generations of tradition and hard work are required to form a nation of traders.

Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view to the proper end of education: the promotion of the best possible realization of humanity as humanity.

Histories make men wise.

There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding … as we are ourselves.