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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.

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, Women, School
Attributed to Margaret Mead in Andrew L. Zehner "How They Work In Indiana: Business-Education Partnerships" (p. 3), 1994.

There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.

Margaret Mead
Spouse, Communicate, Persons

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist-this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul-a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Margaret Mead
Country, Art, School
Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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.

Margaret Mead
War, Technology, Hands

human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.

Margaret Mead
Suffering, Identity, Culture
Margaret Mead (1970). “Culture and Commitment”

WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.

Margaret Mead
Life, War, Peacemaking

Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.

Margaret Mead
Order, Want, What You Want

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

Margaret Mead
Passion, Government, Problem

I have been accused of having believed when I wrote Sex and Temperament that there are no sex differences... This, many readers felt, was too much. It was too pretty. I must have found what I was looking for. But this misconception comes from a lack of understanding of what anthropology means, of the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder, that which one would not have been able to guess.

Margaret Mead
Science, Air, Listening
Preface of Margaret Mead "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies" (p. 26), 1950 edition.

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

Margaret Mead
Learning, School, Grandmother

In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world

Margaret Mead
Children, Growing Up, Life Changing
MARGARET MEAD (1959). “PEOPLE AND PLACES”

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

Margaret Mead
Inspirational, Change, Kindness

To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.

Margaret Mead
Hate, Love Is, Demand
Margaret Mead, Margaret Mary Caffrey, Patricia A. Francis (2006). “To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead”, p.122, Basic Books

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Margaret Mead
Truth, Believe, Add
Quoted in N.Y. Times, 9 Aug. 1964

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups or between groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to be run. If you look back, you will see that warfare was an invention, just as ways of handling government or taxes are inventions. You will see, too, that once people use an invention they go on using it until they find another which they think is superior.

Margaret Mead
Running, War, Thinking
MARGARET MEAD (1959). “PEOPLE AND PLACES”

Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.

Margaret Mead
Government, Differences, Passionate

[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

Margaret Mead
Men, Males, Prestige
"Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies". Book by Margaret Mead, 1935.

Everybody's suffering is mine but not everybody's murdering ... I do not distinguish for one moment whether my child is in danger or a child in central Asia. But I will not accept responsibility for what other people do because I happen to belong to that nation or that race or that religion. I do not believe in guilt by association.

Margaret Mead
Children, Believe, Responsibility

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.

Margaret Mead
Past, People, Support

Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.

Margaret Mead
Manners
Margaret Mead, Margaret Mary Caffrey, Patricia A. Francis (2006). “To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead”, p.14, Basic Books

Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.

Margaret Mead
Flesh, Stuff, Injustice
Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

Margaret Mead
Motherhood, Fatherhood, Facts

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

Margaret Mead
Groups, Poverty, Discrimination
Margaret Mead (1972). “Twentieth century faith: hope and survival”

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

Margaret Mead
Generations, Young, Elders

The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.

Margaret Mead
Success, America, People