Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist
Attributed in Educational Psychology (2000) by Anita E. Woolfolk, p. 212
2000s
“The most potent force for change, however, is the growing recognition of millions of adults that their own impoverished expectations and frustrations came, in large measure, from their schooling.”
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Nine, Flying and Seeing: New Ways to Learn
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