“Both individuals and communities must be able to possess the skills and knowledge required to function productively in the changing world.”
Education helps reduce social problems and improves quality of life
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Source: The Ideology of Fascism: The Rationale of Totalitarianism, (1969), p. 305

Source: The Dragons of Eden (1977), Chapter 7, “Lovers and Madmen” (p. 192)

As quoted in "The View from the Year 2000" http://books.google.com/books?id=kVMEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Pollution+is+nothing+but+resources+we're+not+harvesting+We+allow+them+to+disperse+because+we've+been+ignorant+of+their+value%22&pg=PA52#v=onepage by Barry Farrell in LIFE magazine (26 February 1971)
Statement made in 1974, quoted in People magazine. In Thomas T. K. Zung, "Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the New Millenium" (2002), 174.
1970s
Context: Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. But if we got onto a planning planning basis, the government could trap pollutants in the stacks and spillages and get back more money than this would cost out of the stockpiled chemistries they'd be collecting.
Margaret Mead gets cross with me when I talk like this because she says people are doing some very important things because they're worried and excited and I'm going to make them relax and stop doing those things. But we're dealing with something much bigger than we're accustomed to understanding, we're on a very large course indeed. You speak of racism, for example, and I tell you that there's no such thing as race. The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy.

Source: The Production of Security (1849), p. 40

“Genius does not only require superior knowledge and skill, but also superior patience.”
Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978

The Origin of Humankind (1994)

The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education (1993)

Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)