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.


p. 1, Opening of introduction - Coming of Age in Samoa (1928)

Margaret Mead Quotes

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

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

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

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