Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead
Margaret Meadwas an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College in New York City and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth16 December 1901
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift
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We — mankind — stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device — our consciousness of the crisis — as our unique contribution.
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What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population - especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings - can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.