Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
MARGARET MEADThe problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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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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The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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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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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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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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