Children Quotes by Margaret Mead

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

— Margaret Mead

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

— Margaret Mead

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves

— Margaret Mead

Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children.

— Margaret Mead

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

— Margaret Mead

We must have...a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.

— Margaret Mead

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

— Margaret Mead

today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

— Margaret Mead

The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not…

— Margaret Mead

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools…

— Margaret Mead

the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children.

— Margaret Mead

the experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table,…

— Margaret Mead

Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire…

— Margaret Mead

I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally…

— Margaret Mead

Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh…

— Margaret Mead

What are the determinative factors in the early training of the child which assures that it will be placid and contented, unaggressive…

— Margaret Mead

The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to…

— Margaret Mead

Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to…

— Margaret Mead

Everybody's suffering is mine but not everybody's murdering ... I do not distinguish for one moment whether my child is in danger…

— Margaret Mead

What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate…

— Margaret Mead

If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our…

— Margaret Mead

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young,…

— Margaret Mead

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless…

— Margaret Mead

Our human situation no longer permits us to make armed dichotomies between those who are good and those who are evil, those…

— Margaret Mead

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

If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding…

— Margaret Mead

Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons…

— Margaret Mead

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one…

— Margaret Mead

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end…

— Margaret Mead

I am interested in what happens to people who find the whole of life so rewarding that they are able to move…

— Margaret Mead

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within…

— Margaret Mead

“One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and not be…

— Margaret Mead

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age,…

— Margaret Mead

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away…

— Margaret Mead

Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has…

— Margaret Mead

“We must turn all of our educational efforts to training our children for the choices which will confront them... The child who…

— Margaret Mead

I discovered when I had a child of my own that I had become a biased observer of small children. Instead of…

— Margaret Mead

Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and…

— Margaret Mead

The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the…

— Margaret Mead

There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children... with the fact of child-bearing out of the…

— Margaret Mead