Margaret Mead Quotes About Education

Quotes about: Education

• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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

  Margaret Mead

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

• The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average teachers approximate the performance of good teachers.

  Margaret Mead

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

• Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

  Margaret Mead

  Education, Learning, Men

  "Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap". Book by Margaret Mead, 1970.

• I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way that I devoutly believed in but could not explain, I expected to become a person.

  Margaret Mead

  Education, College, Ideas

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