Margaret Mead Quotes - Page 4

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

  Margaret Mead

  Success, America, People

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• If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.

  Margaret Mead

  Peace, Wall, Intelligent

  "Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views". Book edited by Rhoda Metraux, 1963.

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  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.

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• Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.

  Margaret Mead

  Technology, Discovery, People

  MARGARET MEAD (1959). “PEOPLE AND PLACES”

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• It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

  Margaret Mead

  Birthday, Regret, Learning

  "Teacher's Treasury of Stories for Every Occasion". Book by Millard Dale Baughman, 1958.

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• [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.

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• there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

  Margaret Mead

  Generations, Young, Elders

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• It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for.

  Margaret Mead

  Moon, Environmental, Earth

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• You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.

  Margaret Mead

  Smell

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• Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.

  Margaret Mead

  Failure, Journey, Goes On

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• We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.

  Margaret Mead

  Growing Up, Questioning, Grows

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• Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.

  Margaret Mead

  Running, Views, Groups

  MARGARET MEAD (1959). “PEOPLE AND PLACES”

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• Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Heart, Reality

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• I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

  Margaret Mead

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

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

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• Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. The reasons are not far to seek. We are at a turning point in human history. . . . We could turn our attention to the problems that going to the Moon certainly will not solve ... But I think this would be fatal to our future. . . . A society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Moving

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• If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.

  Margaret Mead

  Water, Would Be, Lasts

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• Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

  Margaret Mead

  Grandmother, Hands, Voice

  Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

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• We must have...a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Adults, Groups

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• Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

  Margaret Mead

  Boyfriend, Fathers Day, Dad

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Harold A. Minden "Two Hugs for Survival" (p. 22), 1982.

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• Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, Sisterhood, Want

  In Quote Magazine 15 June 1958

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  Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

  Margaret Mead

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.

  Margaret Mead

  Feels, Love Someone, Knows

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• In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a way of life is implicit in all human culture as we know it. But the separation of the teacher's role from the role of all adults who inducted the young into the habitual behavior of the group, was a comparatively late invention. Furthermore, when we do find explicit and defined teaching, in primitive societies we find it tied in with a sense of the rareness or the precariousness of some human tradition.

  Margaret Mead

  Teacher, Teaching, Adults

  "An Anthropologist Looks at the Teacher's Role". Educational Method, Vol 21, p. 219-223, 1942.

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• 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.

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• We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Masculine And Feminine, Personality

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

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