Education Quotes by Margaret Mead

“My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.”

— Margaret Mead

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

— Margaret Mead

An education not founded on Art will never succeed.

— Margaret Mead

The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.

— 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

Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach…

— 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

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

— 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 approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way…

— Margaret Mead

The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed…

— Margaret Mead

Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick.…

— Margaret Mead

Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that…

— Margaret Mead

In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a…

— Margaret Mead