The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was… — 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
Even very recently, the elders could say: 'You know, I have been young and you never have been old.' But today's young… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a… — 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
