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 … - Margaret Mead

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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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About Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (16 December 1901 – 15 November 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

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Alternative Names: Margaret Bateson Margaret Mead Bateson Margaret Fortune Margaret Mead Fortune
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