Socialization Quotes

• I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.

  Seymour Papert

  Jobs, Children, Teaching

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• In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

  Warren Farrell

  Block, Giving, Roles

  Interview with J. Steven Svoboda, www.menweb.org. 1997.

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• Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.

  John Dewey

  Quality, Groups, Needs

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.64, 谷月社

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• Our normal expectations about reality are created by a social consensus. We are taught how to see and understand the world. The trick of socialization is to convince us that the descriptions we agree upon define the limits of the real world. What we call reality is only one way of seeing the world, a way that is supported by social consensus.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Real, Agree Upon, Agreement

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• Perhaps we need to separate youth from education. Education lasts forever. Youth is the time for exploration, maturation, socialization.

  Jeff Jarvis

  Forever, Needs, Lasts

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• The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Principles, Way, Action

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• And last, we must bear in mind that the relationships between perception, thought, emotion, and behavior are neither automatic nor consistent. In many cases they are demonstrably affected or directed by culture and socialization. We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want.

  Hanne Blank

  Perception, Mind, Culture

  Hanne Blank (2012). “Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality”, p.18, Beacon Press

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• To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.

  Bell Hooks

  Community, Way, Awareness

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.36, Routledge

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• There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

  Steven Pinker

  Culture, Doe, Acquire

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• Socialization would be the most successful thing to bring mainstream audiences to online computers.

  Tim Wu

  Successful, Would Be, Computer

  "How Free Web Content Traps People In An Abyss Of Ads And Clickbait". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wncw.org. October 17, 2016.

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• Looking at virtual reality through computer screens, video game screens, and above all television screens is a denial of personality development. It's a denial of socialization, of expansion of vocabulary, of interaction with real human beings.

  Ralph Nader

  Real, Vocabulary, Games

  "A Portrait of the Crusader as a Young Man". Interview with Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.

  Steven Pinker

  Personality

  "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 18, 2017.

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• Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead. Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.

  Vera Nazarian

  Passion, Opposites, Two

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• Some people become dullards, but as children we are all creative. It's in the programming, the socialization, that we lose our sense of play.

  Julie Taymor

  Children, Play, People

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• Accusing a home school kid of missing out on ‘socialization’ is like accusing a work-at-home entrepreneur of missing out on corporate politics.

  Perry Marshall

  Home, School, Kids

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• If you are sitting there waiting for someone to tell you how wonderful you are, you'll never get anything done. Women need to get over being women. I'm tired of that socialization of women; that we are always supposed to be sitting around pleasing somebody.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Tired, Waiting, Needs

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• The process of socialization is nowhere near complete at age five or six, when modern children start spending up to half their waking hours taking their cues from other people's children. Because they accompany their parents' daily routine, homeschooled kids spend plenty of time interacting with people of all ages, which I think most people would agree is a far more natural, organic way to socialize.

  Quinn Cummings

  Children, Kids, Thinking

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• There are certain functions that the family performs. In the first place the family provides society with an orderly means of reproduction, while at the same time the norms of marriage control the potentially disruptive forces of sexuality. Second, the family provides physical and economic support for the child during the early years of dependence. The child receives its primary socialization in the family, learning the essential ideas and values required for adult life.

  Adrian Wilson

  Children, Mean, Years

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• Its amazing that so many kids turn out to be fairly normal, considering the weird socialization they get in public schools.

  Rick Santorum

  School, Kids, Normal

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• The reason why feral kitties are hard to tame is because they have missed socialization the period - you need to be touching and petting those kittens when they are real young.

  Temple Grandin

  Real, Touching, Reason Why

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin" by Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization...I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.

  Seymour Papert

  Jobs, Children, Teaching

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• Evolution is evolution - and it's happened before us and will continue after we're gone. But, what's taking place now is much more than change for the sake of change. The socialization of content creation, consumption and participation, is hastening the metamorphosis that transforms everyday people into participants of a powerful and valuable media literate society.

  Brian Solis

  Inspirational, Powerful, Media

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• Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexual use by men. Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Men, Body, Use

  "Reflections on Sex Equality under Law". "The Yale Law Journal", 1991.

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• Once the dollar begins to collapse beneath the weight of all this new deficit spending, accumulation of contingency liabilities and the socialization of our economy, commodity prices and interest rates will head skyward.

  Peter Schiff

  Commodity Prices, Weight, Dollars

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• It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments and the basic rate of reward to those who own them, it will have accomplished all that is necessary. Moreover, the necessary measures of socialization can be introduced gradually and without a break in the general traditions of society.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Wisdom, Important, Politics

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.346, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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