Margaret Mead Quotes about Learning

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

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

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Margaret Mead

Birthday, Regret, Learning

"Teacher's Treasury of Stories for Every Occasion". Book by Millard Dale Baughman, 1958.

Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

Margaret Mead

Education, Learning, Men

"Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap". Book by Margaret Mead, 1970.

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.

Margaret Mead

Children, Educational, Learning

The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.

Margaret Mead

Teaching, Learning, Teach

Margaret Mead (1964). “Continuities in Cultural Evolution”, p.44, Transaction Publishers