Well you don’t have to stand out but you do have to stand up, If not you create your own prison.
Learning not to stand out is a lesson well taught in our nation's prison-like government schools and is a form of self-imprisonment that many of our fellow citizens carry throughout their lives.
If you read the history of the beginnings of state controlled compulsory education in the U.S. “Not Standing Out” and creating a conformist population was the very **goal** of those who pushed so hard for compulsory and state controlled government schooling.