Socialization Quotes

Children must be taught to hate their parents if they are not Communists.

It is society which, fashioning us in its image, fills us with religious, political, and moral beliefs that control our actions.

You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

In Silicon Valley, I point out that many of the more successful entrepreneurs seem to be suffering from a mild form of Asperger's where it's like you're missing the imitation, socialization gene.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

The problem is my kids are liberal, maybe too liberal, and I have no one to blame but myself because I introduced them to Uncle O.J.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select – doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

Give me a child for the first 7 years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.

Man is a child of his environment.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

Moving to a new school, or up a year at an existing school - with new friends, teachers, subjects, rules and expectation - is a big deal for young people. All of us who are adults remember how daunting it was, but we sometimes take it for granted that children will be able to cope with the change.

I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

Half of what creates psychopaths is genetic, but the other half is conditioning.

Education proceeds ultimately from the patterns furnished by institutions, customs, and laws.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested beings who need to be taught moral notions such as the wrongness of harming another person.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.