Leonard Sax Quotes

• Girls and boys respond to stress differently - not just in our species, but in every mammal scientists have studied. Stress enhances learning in males. The same stress impairs learning in females.

  Leonard Sax

  Girl, Stress, Boys

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• If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases, gang initiation rituals, street racing, and random violence may be the result.

  Leonard Sax

  Boys, Random Violence, Racing

  Leonard Sax (2009). “Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men”, p.168, Basic Books

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