today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and not be… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick.… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We must have...a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I discovered when I had a child of my own that I had become a biased observer of small children. Instead of… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age,… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young,… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
No skill, no special aptitude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
