“If the old saying is true, that what one generation learns in school is the philosophy of the next, then the philosophy of the next generation will be totalitarianism.”
“The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.”
“All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it’s game over forever.”
“What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.”
“True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation.”