“Being a role model is the most important kind of educating.” —John Wooden In June 2025, shortly after the NBA Finals, journalists interviewed Vaughn Alexander, the father of Oklahoma City Thunder ...

Children learn primarily through observing and imitating the behaviors of others, both positive and negative. Positive role models, individuals whose behavior, attitude and values are admired and ...

Humans are a social species, and we are strongly influenced by the examples other people set for us. I have written frequently about goal contagion—the idea that we often adopt the goals of the people ...

Young women are thriving. Young men are not. As recently noted by Claire Cain Miller in The New York Times: “Efforts since the 1990s to provide female role models have had great success in opening ...

Children begin learning about life early on from the people who surround them. From the earliest age, youngsters mimic their parents and look to caregivers to guide their development and demonstrate ...