We are now at the point where we must educate people in what nobody knew yesterday, and prepare in our schools for what no one knows yet but what some people must know tommorow.
-- Margaret Mead
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
-- Margaret Mead
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
-- Margaret Mead
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
-- Margaret Mead
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
-- Margaret Mead
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
-- Margaret Mead
At times it may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
-- Margaret Mead
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
-- Margaret Mead
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
-- Margaret Mead
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
-- Margaret Mead
Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts and varying interests.
-- Margaret Mead
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
-- Margaret Mead
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.
-- Margaret Mead
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
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
-- Margaret Mead
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