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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.

Margaret Mead

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

Enough Intelligence Oneself State Understand
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
MARGARET MEAD

Believe Fierce Woman
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

Culture Each Other Hierarchy Right Value
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
MARGARET MEAD

Pay Possible Price
Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
MARGARET MEAD

Creature Emotional Expression Grief Humor Intellectual Laughter Loyalty Man
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
MARGARET MEAD

Bed Care Learning Yourself
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
MARGARET MEAD

Ability Learning Old Teaching
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

Belief Future Hands Problem Technology War
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
MARGARET MEAD

Contribute Creation Culture Difference Generation Man Woman
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
MARGARET MEAD

Awareness Capability Human Love Sexual Wide
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
MARGARET MEAD

Journey Ship Wreck
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
MARGARET MEAD

Death Myself Retirement
A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
MARGARET MEAD

Ability Brilliant Culture Fulfill Order Promise Quality Woman
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
MARGARET MEAD

Appreciation Culture Home Knowledge Travel Wisdom
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
MARGARET MEAD

Life Philosophy Right Sarcasm Time

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