Margaret Mead Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• 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.

• If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, History, Diversity

  Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies conclusion (1935)

• There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

  Margaret Mead

  Arrogance, Self Control, Culture

  Margaret Mead (2000). “And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America”, p.152, Berghahn Books

• Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, 'Go to sleep by yourselves.' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Sleep, Independent

  "Growing Old in America". Grace Hechinger, Family Circle Magazine, July 25, 1977.

• [Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, Males, Prestige

  "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies". Book by Margaret Mead, 1935.

• Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made a career, to the effect that the ultimate value of studying other cultures was the use we could make of them to reconstruct our own - a heady kind of intellectual imperialism, as if the final meaning of others' lives was their significance for us.

  Margaret Mead

  Blue, Other Cultures, Careers

• It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male; it frightens the men, unsexes the women, and muffles and distorts the contribution women could make.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, Males, Fields

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