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"In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority."
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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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Personal Development
"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
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Personal Development
"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."
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Personal Development
"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
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Personal Development
"It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."
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Personal Development
"Think before you act and act on what you believe."
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Personal Development
"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
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Personal Development
"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."
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Personal Development
"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."
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Personal Development
"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."
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"The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board."
Achievement
"The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds."
Family
"If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge."
Challenge
"The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education."
Education
"In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority."
Act
"It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents."
Achievement
"A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher."
Learning
"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."
Competition
"As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests."
Music
"The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement."
Achievement
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