5 Margaret Mead Quotes on Education

Margaret Mead quotes on education

4. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

26. 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.

29. 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.

52. The ability to learn is older- as it is also more widespread- than is the ability to teach.

59. We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.