as the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep,so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen o… - Margaret Mead

How are men and women to think about their maleness and their femaleness in this twentieth century, in which so many of our old ideas must be made new? Have we over-domesticated men, denied their natural adventurousness, tied them down to machines that are after all only glorified spindles and looms, mortars and pestles and digging sticks, all of which were once women's work? Have we cut women off from their natural closeness to their children, taught them to look for a job instead of the touch of a child's hand, for status in a competitive world rather than a unique place by a glowing hearth? In educating women like men, have we done something disastrous to both men and women alike, or have we only taken one further step in the recurrent task of building more and better on our original human nature?

The ability to learn is older — as it is also more widespread — than is the ability to teach.

Man’s most human characteristic is not his ability to
learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.