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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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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."
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"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."
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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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"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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"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."
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Personal Development
"Think before you act and act on what you believe."
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"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous."
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Personal Development
"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
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"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."
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"When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested."
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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."
Act
"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."
Competition
"Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards."
Cultural
"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
"A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher."
Learning
"Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins."
Success
"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
"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
"In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student."
Boys
"If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge."
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