Skip to content

Quotes from Continuities in Cultural Evolution — Margaret Mead

1901–1978 United States

← All quotes by Margaret Mead

3 quotes

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

Continuities in Cultural Evolution (1964)

We — mankind — stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device — our consciousness of the crisis — as our unique contribution.

Continuities in Cultural Evolution (1964)

Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.

Continuities in Cultural Evolution (1964)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Margaret Mead (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.