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Margaret Mead Quotes
«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.»
Author: Margaret Mead
| Keywords:
delightful, loathsome, presented, range, stereotype, stereotyped, stereotypes, stereotyping
«Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women»
«Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.»
«We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex»
«If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.»
Author: Margaret Mead
| About:
Achievement,
Culture,
Gifts,
Mankind,
Value
| Keywords:
arbitrary, contrasting, diverse, fabric, fitting, fittings, gamut, human culture, potentialities, potentiality, richer, rich in, weave
«Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.»
«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»
Author: Margaret Mead
| Keywords:
cloister, cloistered, cloisters, grasp, laboratories, laboratory, subject matter, the University, twelve, university, walls
«We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them»
Author: Margaret Mead
| About:
Potential
| Keywords:
beneath, classification, classifications, perish, potentialities, potentiality, recur, recurring, Sex and, superficial
«Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise»
Author: Margaret Mead
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
contribution, enterprise, feminine, group, Human Relations, intuition, relations, training