Dec 20, 2009
Margaret Mead credited her parents, Emily Fogg and Edward Sherwood Mead, and her paternal grandmother, Martha Ramsay Mead, as her primary childhood influences. They were all educators; her mother was a teacher and sociologist who was pursuing graduate work when Margaret was born, her father was a professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, and her grandmother, who was primarily responsible for teaching Margaret, was a retired school principal. As a child, Margaret received only sporadic formal education, attending two years of kindergarten, one year of...
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