David Elkind
David Elkind
David Elkindis a Jewish-American child psychologist and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth11 March 1931
CountryUnited States of America
certainly college economic human values weighed
It's certainly part of the same group-think. They're doing the same thing -- branding -- with universities. We see economic values being weighed much more heavily than human values.
sports children real
Much of the pressure contemporary parents feel with respect to dressing children in designer clothes, teaching young children academics, and giving them instruction in sports derives directly from our need to use our children to impress others with our economic surplus. We find "good" rather than real reasons for letting our children go along with the crowd.