I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally… — 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
The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
the experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table,… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
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 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
Both men and women are conceived as merely capable of response to a situation that their society has already defined for them… — 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
