knowledge inheritance Quotes

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own.

We no longer love our knowledge enough once we have passed it on.

The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority.

Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.

They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.