Everything Tagged with 'Margaret Mead'
When we engage in restoring childhood to some place in our thinking and recognize that childhood has significance in the development of the adult, it’s all right to talk generally about “childhood” and “the child.” But as a theoretical concept, “the Child” is a fiction. We do not know enough about what children, as biologically given creatures, will do at different stages in development or under different cultural circumstances. […] We will not develop a useful theory of child development until we recognize that “the Child” doesn’t exist. Only children exist; children in a particular context; children who are different from each other; children with different senses.
– Margaret Mead, "Children, Culture, and Edith Cobb" (1977)