Socialization Quotes

"Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adult... Many people are often wrong... Don`t bother being nice. Being popular and well liked is not in your best interest. Let me be more clear; if you behave in a manner pleasing to most, then you are probably doing something wrong. The masses have never been arbiters of the sublime, and they often fail to recognize the truly great individual. Taking into account the public`s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in." (From her book "Feel This Book," co-written with Ben Stiller)

One of them is a simple logical point that no matter how important learning and culture and socialization are, they don`t happen by magic.

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

Personality and socialization aren`t the same thing.

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