Margaret Mead

We must teach our children to be critical thinkers.

The patterns of human behavior are endlessly fascinating.

My work is my life, and my life is my work.

There is no single right way to live.

The responsibility of the anthropologist is to make the strange familiar and the familiar strange.

I have always been driven by a desire to understand.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

We are living in an era of such rapid change that we can no longer afford to educate our children for a world that will be obsolete by the time they are adults.

The most powerful way to change the world is to change the way we raise our children.

The only way to find out if you can do something is to do it.

Instead of being afraid of the future, we should be excited about it.

The assumption that men and women are different is a fundamental error.

We must recognize that the future of mankind is in our hands.

The family is the basic unit of society.

We are all part of a great human family.

The world is a much more interesting place than we often imagine.

We must create a world where all children have the opportunity to reach their full potential.

The way we bring up our children is the way we bring up our world.

We are now at a point where we must educate our children for an unknown future.

The greatest value of a human being is not what he owns, but what he is.