Margaret Mead
Scientist
1901-12-16
Quotes by Margaret Mead
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I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?
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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.
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Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.
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There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
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I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?
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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
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It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves
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As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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