Geburtsdatum | Mittwoch, 28. Juni 1905 |
Todesort | Princeton,_New_Jersey |
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Beschreibung | Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu (28. Juni 1905 - 26. November 1999) - geboren als Israel Ehrenberg - war ein britisch-amerikanischer Anthropologe, der die Untersuchung von Themen wie Ethnie und Geschlecht und deren Beziehung zu Politik und Entwicklung popularisierte. Er war 1950 der Berichterstatter für die UNESCO-Erklärung "The Race Question". Als junger Mann änderte er seinen Namen von Ehrenberg in "Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu". Nach seiner Übersiedlung in die Vereinigten Staaten benutzte er den Namen "Ashley Montagu". |
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
