As the traveller who has been once from home is wiser than he who has never left his own… — Margaret Mead

As the traveller who has been once from home is wiser than he who has never left his own door step, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinise more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

1928
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Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation. Mariner Books Classics, 2001, introduction.
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Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation. William Morrow and Co., 1928, introduction.