Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney) / quote 4 of 70
Mead: explain it to a twelve-year-old
Anthropologist and teacher Margaret Mead said in Redbook magazine in 1963, “If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the University and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.”