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In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.
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Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more then chairman, at most, of the entertainment committee.
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Whether clear or garbled, tumultuous or silent, deliberate or fatally inadvertent, communication is the ground of meeting and the foundation of community. It is, in short, the essential human connection.
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The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.
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The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
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Women must be granted complete equality with men, for only when this has been done will they fully be able to realize themselves.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
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Ashley Montagu
Born:
June 28, 1905
Died:
November 26, 1999
(aged 94)
Bio:
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu, previously known as Israel Ehrenberg, was a British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development.
Known for:
Man's most dangerous myth (1942)
The natural superiority of women (1953)
Touching (1971)
Growing young (1981)
The elephant man (1971)
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