John McWhorter Quotes

Teens find out a lot from other teens.

Kids get influenced by other kids.

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

I was safe, due to my parents, but the Boys' Club was a massive influence.

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

We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.

I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of an environmental thing.

Peer pressure is a huge part of youth behavior, whether one grows up in Washington, D.C., or Cody, Wyo.

You find your personality real quick in school.

We're kind of influenced by all the different people we meet.

Half the point of education is to build peer groups and social bonds.

The children of less effective, less competent parents will be more likely to adopt the customs and values of the peer group.

Leaders set the tone for their peers. Peers look up to them and say, 'They're doing it, so I'm doing it.'

I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.

I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

When I was young, running with a gang was a cool thing to do; that's how you get popular; that's how you get the girls.

Self-discovery is so important in identity processing: who you hang out with, what clothes you wear, what shows you see. As a kid, I found out about things through friends. I would go to hardcore shows with 50 people.

School has never really been about individualized learning, but about how to be socialized as a citizen and as a human being, so that we, we have important rules in school, always emphasizing the fact that one is part of a group.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

Having a great dad probably permitted me to pal around with guys in a way that some women don't.

You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow.

Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest.