Margaret Mead Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Growing Up, Adults

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Anita E. Woolfolk "Educational Psychology" (p. 212), 1980.

• today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Growing Up, War

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1970). “A way of seeing”

• Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is clear to me that today no argument can stand that supports unequal opportunity or any intrinsic disqualification for sharing in the whole of life.

  Margaret Mead

  Past, Opportunity, Equality

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

• The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.

  Margaret Mead

  War, Technology, Hands

• Even very recently, the elders could say: 'You know, I have been young and you never have been old.' But today's young people can reply: 'You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be.' ... the older generation will never see repeated in the lives of young people their own unprecedented experience of sequentially emerging change. This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.

  Margaret Mead

  People, Generations, World

• The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, House, Important

• The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.

  Margaret Mead

  Success, America, People

• Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Sick, Who Cares

  Margaret Mead (1964). “Continuities in Cultural Evolution”, p.321, Transaction Publishers

• I think the important thing about sisters is that they share the same minute, familiar life-style, the same little sets of rules. Therefore they can keep house with each other late in life, because they share the same bunch of housewifely prejudices. The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, Thinking, House

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