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In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
Moustapha Akkad, Director (1909) |
Mukesh Ambani, Businessman (1957) |
Fisher Ames, Statesman (1758) |
Saskia De Brauw, Artist (1981) |
Stanley Fish, Writer (1938) |
Margaret Haddix, Author (1964) |
Konrad Adenauer, Statesman (1967) |
Jim Cantalupo, Businessman (2004) |
Charles Darwin, Scientist (1882) |