In Search of Relevant Education

Abstract

Margaret once cited an instance of how at the end of a lecture on primitive education, in which she described the learning of various skills by children of the Manus tribe, she was asked by a woman if they had any "vocational training".  This question, according to Mead, "……..epitomized a long series of changes which stand between our idea of education and the processes by which members of a homogeneous and relatively static primitive society transmit their standardized habit patterns to their children".