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As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Approximate author period: c. 1939 AD · modern
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- Margaret Mead
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- Approximate author period: c. 1939 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Margaret Mead: life dates 1901 to 1978. Wikidata Q180099, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180099 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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