The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
MARGARET MEADWith 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.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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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.
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If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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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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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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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.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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