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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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"Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts."
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"Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle."
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Personal Development
"When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys."
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"OK, boys; let's go make a withdrawal."
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"Bad Boys II has knocked everyone's socks off."
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"Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament."
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"My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them."
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"I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play."
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"I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again."
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"I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that."
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"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
"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
"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
"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 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."
Challenge
"It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college."
Opportunity
"Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels."
Family
"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
"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."
Competition
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