Quotes By Margaret Mead

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

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.

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

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.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.