Ashley Montagu Biography

Ashley Montagu, Scientist

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Born as	Israel Ehrenberg
Occup.	Scientist
From	United Kingdom
Born	June 28, 1905 London, England
Died	November 26, 1999 Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Cause	Natural causes
Aged	94 years

Ashley Montagu, born as Israel Ehrenberg, was a British-American anthropologist, humanist, and writer who was renowned for his groundbreaking research on the nature of human beings. He was born on June 28, 1905, in London, England, to Polish Jewish moms and dads. Montagu grew up in a family of pundits and musicians, which instilled in him a love for finding out and also creativity. In spite of dealing with misfortune throughout his young life, consisting of shedding his mom at a young age as well as facing anti-Semitism, Montagu went on to turn into one of the most well-regarded anthropologists of the 20th century.

Montagu got his BA as well as PhD in anthropology from the College of London in 1929 and also 1937, respectively. He later on moved to the United States, where he held settings at Columbia College and Rutgers University. Montagu was a respected author, publishing over sixty publications and hundreds of write-ups in his life time. He was a renowned expert in the fields of human sexuality, child-rearing, genes, and race, as well as he was devoted to progressing the fields of human biology as well as cultural anthropology.

Among Montagu's most substantial payments to anthropology was his service race. In his publication, "Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race", Montagu argued that race was an arbitrary social construct, and there was no clinical basis for racial category. He was a singing opponent of bigotry as well as supported for the value of cultural differences, rather than biological ones.

Montagu additionally made significant contributions to the fields of human sexuality as well as youngster growth. He was a supporter for sex education and learning, saying that it was needed for people to have a healthy and fulfilling sex life. He thought that parents must be motivated to be much more open with their kids concerning sex, which sex education ought to belong to the common college educational program.

Montagu was a respected author of prominent science books, and his works were read by millions around the globe. He was a regular on tv as well as radio programs, and his point of views were regularly sought by the media. Montagu was additionally a humanist, counting on the power of factor as well as compassion. Throughout his life, he was dedicated to social justice and worked to increase tolerance and understanding between people of different cultural histories.

Montagu passed away on November 26, 1999, in Princeton, New Jersey, at the age of 94. Throughout his life, he made substantial contributions to our understanding of human biology and culture, as well as he will be born in mind as one of one of the most essential anthropologists of the 20th century.

Our collection contains 15 quotes who is written / told by Ashley, under the main topics: Happiness - Death - Science.

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Ashley Montagu Famous Works:

1942 Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race (Book)
1953 The Natural Superiority of Women (Book)
1971 The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity (Book)
1971 Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin (Book)
1981 Growing Young (Book)

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15 Famous quotes by Ashley Montagu

"By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being"

"Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago"

"The idea is to die young as late as possible"

"Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof"

"One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success"

"Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason"

"Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties"

"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"

"The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone"

"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 natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality"

"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us"

"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"

"The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become"

"The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity"