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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

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
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
MARGARET MEAD

Breathe Effort Love
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Education Known Ourselves Point
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
MARGARET MEAD

Classification Existence Perish Potential Race Recognition Sex
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Delight Difference Opportunity Present
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
MARGARET MEAD

Care Earth Moon Ourselves Photograph Planet Realize
The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Enough Knowledge Known People Problem
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
MARGARET MEAD

Elder Experience Young
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
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
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
MARGARET MEAD

Genuine Group Position Relation Society
The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
MARGARET MEAD

Adult Complication Curiosity Fascination Human Mindset Transformation Way
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
MARGARET MEAD

Ability Learning Old Teaching
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
MARGARET MEAD

Change Citizenship Doubt Small Thinking
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
MARGARET MEAD

Anonymous Carry Strength Weakness

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