“In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law of the instrument , and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.” WayNeedsGivingHumansMayProblemLawIndividualSocialCommunityBoysParticularSolutionsScientistPressureInstrumentsSurpriseTechniqueEncountersTraitsHammersSocial Pressure Book:The Conduct of Inquiry: Methodology for Behavioural Science Source: The Conduct of Inquiry: Methodology for Behavioural Science
“Kids are told there are no differences between boys and girls. They are told there is no such thing ultimately as right and wrong. Values are relative. Truth is relative. Morality is defined by individual choice. If that isn't a recipe for sexual harassment and other forms of sexual and physical abuse, I don't know what it is.” IfsKnowsKidsFormValuesChoicesGirlIndividualDifferencesBoysMoralityTruth IsAbuseDefinedRelativeRecipesHarassmentBoy And GirlPhysical AbuseRelative TruthIndividual Choice Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.” GirlIndividualBoysTemperamentVaryAssertiveAudacious Author:James Dobson
“In the older times it was seldom said to little girls, as it always has been said to boys, that they ought to have some definite plan, while they were children, what to be and do when they were grown up. There was usually but one path open before them, to become good wives and housekeepers. And the ambition of most girls was to follow their mothers' footsteps in this direction; a natural and laudable ambition. But girls, as well as boys, must often have been conscious of their own peculiar capabilities,--must have desired to cultivate and make use of their individual powers.” WellsChildrenLittlesHas BeensSaidUseMotherGirlIndividualNaturalBoysPathWifePlansOughtAmbitionConsciousPeculiarCapabilityDefiniteFootstepsGood WifeHousekeepersIndividual Power Book:A New England girlhood Source: A New England girlhood
“For boys, the family was the place from which one sprang and to which one returned for comfort and support, but the field of action was the larger world of wilderness, adventure, industry, labor, and politics. For girls, the family was to be the world, their field of action the domestic circle. He was to express himself in his work and, through it and social action, was to help transform his environment; her individual growth and choices were restricted to lead her to express herself through love, wifehood, and motherhood--through the support and nurture of others, who would act for her.” WorldHelpingActionChoicesGirlIndividualSocialGrowthBoysSupportEnvironmentFieldsAdventureIndustryComfortLaborMotherhoodCirclesWildernessNurtureSocial Action Author:Gerda Lerner