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The Nurture Assumption Quotes
The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
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“other words, if you want to know the truth about the emperor’s clothes, don’t ask the tailors.”
― The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
― The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
“Fortunately, the metamorphosis came too late to permit me to go back to graduate school. And thus I escaped indoctrination. Whatever I learned about developmental psychology and social psychology, I learned on my own. I was an outsider looking in, and that has made all the difference. I did not buy
into the assumptions of the academic establishment. I was not indebted to their granting agencies. And, once I had given up writing textbooks, I was not required to perpetuate the status quo by teaching the received gospel to a bunch of credulous college students. I gave up writing textbooks because one day it suddenly occurred to me that many of the things I had been telling those credulous college students were wrong.”
― The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
into the assumptions of the academic establishment. I was not indebted to their granting agencies. And, once I had given up writing textbooks, I was not required to perpetuate the status quo by teaching the received gospel to a bunch of credulous college students. I gave up writing textbooks because one day it suddenly occurred to me that many of the things I had been telling those credulous college students were wrong.”
― The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
“Developmentalists who specialize in doing the kind of research I just described are called socialization researchers. Socialization”
― The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
― The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
