Margaret Mead Quotes About Elders

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  • For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

  • The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.

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  • there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

  • Even very recently, the elders could say: 'You know, I have been young and you never have been old.' But today's young people can reply: 'You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be.' ... the older generation will never see repeated in the lives of young people their own unprecedented experience of sequentially emerging change. This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.

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Margaret Mead

  • Born: December 16, 1901
  • Died: November 15, 1978
  • Occupation: Cultural Anthropologist