Top 43 Quotes by Margaret Mead

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

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.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.