quiet-the-power-of-introverts-in-a-world-that-cant-stop-talking-susan-cain

parents and teachers conspired to overhaul
the personalities of quiet children.
“Johnny wasn’t doing so well at
school,” Whyte recalls a mother telling
him. “The teacher explained to me that
he was doing fine on his lessons but
that his social adjustment was not as
good as it might be. He would pick just
one or two friends to play with, and
sometimes he was happy to remain by
himself.” Parents welcomed such interventions,
said Whyte. “Save for a few
odd parents, most are grateful that the
schools work so hard to offset tendencies
to introversion and other suburban
abnormalities.”
Parents caught up in this value system
were not unkind, or even obtuse;
they were only preparing their kids for
the “real world.” When these children
grew older and applied to college and
later for their first jobs, they faced the
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