Margaret Mead Quotes

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

As your competitors learn more, you'll need to learn, too.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

I love learning new techniques.

I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.

My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certainly going to make all the difference for other children, too.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be.

We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.