Margaret Mead Quotes on Learning

5 quotes

  1. I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

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

  5. 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.

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