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

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

Margaret Mead
Children, Teaching, Simple
Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a way of life is implicit in all human culture as we know it. But the separation of the teacher's role from the role of all adults who inducted the young into the habitual behavior of the group, was a comparatively late invention. Furthermore, when we do find explicit and defined teaching, in primitive societies we find it tied in with a sense of the rareness or the precariousness of some human tradition.

Margaret Mead
Teacher, Teaching, Adults
"An Anthropologist Looks at the Teacher's Role". Educational Method, Vol 21, p. 219-223, 1942.

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

The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average teachers approximate the performance of good teachers.

Margaret Mead
Education, Teacher, Teaching
Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson