5 Margaret Mead Quotes on Future

Margaret Mead quotes on future

27. If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

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28. In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world.

54. The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

58. We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

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.