Watch over the child and civilize the teenager.

No, it was fate that chose us to civilize the world. And we have.

A duty to accumulate wealth catalyzed the former a duty to civilize inspired the latter.

Western (and, indeed, Japanese) imperialists used it in the early twentieth century to justify their missions to civilize or modernize the natives.

The lying started, and we heard terms such as La Mission Civilisatrice or The White Man's Burden or responsibility, it is a burden for sure because he had to civilize the less fortunate people.

Indeed, for years the very goal of indigenous education in many countries was to civilize indigenous children by teaching them the language, culture and knowledge of the dominant group, which after the colonial era was that of the hegemonic nationality.

And I'd like to look at how taking a simple Kabul wheelbarrow and putting it on the wall amidst Kipling's call of 1899 to generate dialogue about how I see contemporary development initiatives being rooted in yesterday's colonial rhetoric about a white man's burden to save the brown man from himself and maybe even civilize him a bit.