September 9, 2014
"The role of grandparent was personally rewarding and also culturally significant to Mead. She understood that grandparents needed grandchildren “to keep the changing world alive for them.” As she wrote in the Redbook article, through the stories grandparents told, their grandchildren not only learned about the world as it had been for the grandparent but also what their parents’ childhood had been like. Grandparents thus linked the past to the present, while grandchildren linked the present to the future. Mead saw the value of the link between the generations that grandchildren established as a model for mutual learning across generations, as a means whereby the gap between generations was bridged."

Nancy Lutkehaus Margaret Mead: The Making of an American Icon 

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