During the last hundred years parents and teachers have ceased to take childhood and adolescence for granted. They have attempted to fit education to… - Margaret Mead

If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

No skill, no special apti­tude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it was of one sex rather than the other. No child would be relentlessly shaped to one pattern of behavior, but instead there should be many patterns, in a world that had learned to allow to each individual the pattern which was most congenial to his gifts.

Jangan pernah meremehkan kekuatan segelintir orang yang bersungguh-sungguh untuk mengubah dunia. Memang, hanya segelintir orang yang pernah melakukannya, namun itulah satu-satunya cara yang pernah ada.