With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
MARGARET MEADwe came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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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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There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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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.
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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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