Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead
Margaret Meadwas an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College in New York City and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth16 December 1901
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
sex race class
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
girl children caring
There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children... with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
responsibility world phases
Life is in one of its smoother phases ... I've no responsibilities in the world except friends and students and cherishing the life of the world -- and the belief that there is enough love to go round.
breathing loving-you lovely
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
motivational teacher children
If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding way, they are penalized as being conspicuously better than the peer group. The culture tries to make the child with a gift into a one-sided person, to penalize him at every turn, to cause him trouble in making friends and to create conditions conducive to the development of a neurosis. Neither teachers, the parents of other children, nor the child peers will tolerate a Wunderkind.
organization different phases
The semimetaphysical problems of the individual and society, of egoism and altruism, of freedom and determinism, either disappear or remain in the form of different phases in the organization of a consciousness that is fundamentally social.
grandchildren past grandparent
In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.
keys atmosphere interdependence
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
sex dancing age
Dancing is the only activity in which almost all ages and both sexes participate.
home back-again again-and-again
Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
brain attention world
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
sex games play
Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.
might study lives-of-others
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.
order want what-you-want
Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.