Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
MARGARET MEADI think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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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.
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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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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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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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