The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
MARGARET MEADOne of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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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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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.
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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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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.
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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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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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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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