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The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.
The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.
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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