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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

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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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Philadelphia
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Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.
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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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[Among the Arapeh... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community...] If one comments upon a middle-aged man as good-looking, the people answer: 'Good-looking? Ye-e-e-s? But you should have seen him before he bore all those children'.
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The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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I discovered when I had a child of my own that I had become a biased observer of small children. Instead of looking at them with affectionate but nonpartisan eyes, I saw each of them as older or younger, bigger or smaller, more or less graceful, intelligent, or skilled than my own child.
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Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but a necessary condition of continued human existence. But to take even this step we must return to a calm and responsible frame of mind in which we can face the long patient tasks ahead.
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Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.
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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.
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Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.
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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.
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