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"In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student."
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"She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on."
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"Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle."
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"The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it."
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"I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know."
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"My favorite thing to do is still to go back to Peoria, go to my cabin and hunt with the boys. This is a great lifestyle, don't get me wrong. But fun for me is going back with my buddies I grew up with."
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"I'm the one who's always kissing all the boys and stuff."
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"I truly don't know why the boys are getting all the votes - it could be because they are really amazing, and that's all there is to it. They're really, really good and every single boy deserves to be in the competition right now, and so do the two girls."
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"Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it."
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"Well, my favorite roles so far are Lucas and Lost Boys."
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"Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do."
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"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
"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
"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
"I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him."
School
"For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests."
Change
"Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins."
Success
"Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels."
Family
"In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student."
Boys
"Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others."
Achievement
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