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threeplusfireReflections on conformity as a threat to individuality:
"If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing
conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present
system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning
which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for
self-initiated learning."
-- Carl Rogers, American psychologist
"I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize
the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us."
-- Howard M. Jones, American author
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
-- John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States
"The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform
at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents
and copying one another."
-- Quentin Crisp, English-born American author
"If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing
conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present
system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning
which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for
self-initiated learning."
-- Carl Rogers, American psychologist
"I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize
the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us."
-- Howard M. Jones, American author
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
-- John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States
"The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform
at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents
and copying one another."
-- Quentin Crisp, English-born American author
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Date: 2001-03-19 02:56 pm (UTC)hah!
Date: 2001-03-19 03:14 pm (UTC)