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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.

Margaret Mead

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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Children Education Known Ourselves Point
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Elder Experience Young
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Children Destroy Generation Growth Power World
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Behaviour Form Human Thinking Time
Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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Culture Delight Hold Human Identity Learning Pleasure
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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Afford Class Gift Human National Need Neglect Origin Race Sex
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male
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.
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Children Learning Parents Problem Recognition Solution
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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Burn Dance Energy Love Pollution Prayer
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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Family Impossible Relative Situation Support
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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Animal Children Dangerous Oneself

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