Poet Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
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.
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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.
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

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