Thorsten J. Pattberg said this quote

Western education remains a fetish of the colonial past.

~ Thorsten J. Pattberg

I am despised by an army of undiscerning academic highbrows, and ridiculed by semi-educated and vengeful China-experts whose era of translating Chinese into Western categories has now come to an end. The public is ready for non-European vocabularies.

~ Thorsten J. Pattberg

Tourists and imperialists do not come to be taught. They call things the way they call things at home.

~ Thorsten J. Pattberg

The English word 'creativity' is derived from the Roman-Latin creo - to create. It is inextricably linked to the Western notion of a creator - a divine intervention and violent disrupter.

~ Thorsten J. Pattberg