Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. Margaret Mead More Quotes by Margaret Mead More Quotes From Margaret Mead Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown. Margaret Mead humanitymenlying If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past. Margaret Mead supportpeoplepast Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions. Margaret Mead respondinghuman-naturehumans Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning. Margaret Mead grandmothervoicehands Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run. Margaret Mead groupsviewsrunning No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded. Margaret Mead successfulbelievechildren WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR. Margaret Mead peacemakingwarlife Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in terms of heredity, whether it be of race, or sex, or class. Every social institution which teaches human beings to cringe to those above and step on those below must be replaced by institutions which teach people to look each other straight in the face. Margaret Mead equalityracesex Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity to learn to walk upright, to use our brains, to speak, to relate to our fellow men, to construct and use tools, to explore the universe, and to express that exploration in religion, in art, in science, in philosophy. Margaret Mead menphilosophyart There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which there is no explanation. We can only imagine what purpose lies behind the activities of these quiet, harmlessly cruising objects that time and again approach the Earth. The most likely explanation, it seems to me, is that they are simply watching what we are up to Margaret Mead purposeearthlying From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift. Margaret Mead doegivingculture We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. Margaret Mead carpe-diemsocietynature Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again. Margaret Mead again-and-againback-againhome Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want. Margaret Mead what-you-wantwantorder The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence. Margaret Mead interdependenceatmospherekeys Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention. Margaret Mead motherhoodfatherhoodfacts I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. Margaret Mead respectpeopleway You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world. Margaret Mead our-familytribesworld [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'. Margaret Mead motherfatherchildren We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging. Margaret Mead diversityjusticedoors
