Margaret Mead Quotes about Growing Up

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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

Margaret Mead

Wise, Wisdom, Growing Up

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

Margaret Mead

Children, Growing Up, Adults

Attributed to Margaret Mead in Anita E. Woolfolk "Educational Psychology" (p. 212), 1980.

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”

We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.

Margaret Mead

Growing Up, Questioning, Grows

Dear Math, please grow up and solve your own problems. I'm tired of solving them for you. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Margaret Mead

Witty, Growing Up, Tired

Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children. But once the children grow older, sisters draw closer together and often, in old age, they become each other's chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and of their relationship to each other's children, they share memories of the same home, the same homemaking style, and the same small prejudices about housekeeping that carry the echoes of their mother's voice.

Margaret Mead

Mother, Children, Growing Up

today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

Margaret Mead

Children, Growing Up, War

Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1970). “A way of seeing”

I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.

Margaret Mead

Growing Up, Stress, Book