I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples — faraway peoples — so that Americans might better understand themselves. - Margaret Mead

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.

During the last hundred years parents and teachers have ceased to take childhood and adolescence for granted. They have attempted to fit education to the needs of the child, rather than to press the child into an inflexible educational mould. To this new task they have been spurred by two forces, the growth of the science of psychology, and the difficulties and maladjustments of youth.