Margaret Mead Quotes About Discipline

Quotes about: Discipline

• I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

  Margaret Mead

  Uplifting, Determination, Work

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Wayne Mazzoni "You Vs. You: Sport Psychology Got Life" (p. 90), 2005.

• It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.

  Margaret Mead

  Class, Discipline, Mind

  "Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education" by Margaret Mead, (p. 406), 1930.

• The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

  Margaret Mead

  Marriage, Men, Civilization

  "Male and Female". Margaret Mead, Ladies' Home Journal, Volume 66 (p. 36), September 1949.

• Margaret Mead was both a student of civilization and an exemplar of it. To a public of millions, she brought the central insight of cultural anthropology: that varying cultural patterns express an underlying human unity. She mastered her discipline, but she also transcended it. Intrepid, independent, plain spoken, fearless, she remains a model for the young and a teacher from whom all may learn.

  Margaret Mead

  Teacher, Independent, Civilization

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