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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."
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"Every misfortune is a fortune."
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Personal Development
"Don't conform. Don't live in a small dirty pond when the ocean of life is lovingly inviting you."
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Personal Development
"Dark matter is on the move,It's spreading out its wings,It is the culmination,Of all our bad things.It was never in the beginning,But then man came along,And changed the equation,I bid you all...So Long."
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Personal Development
"No matter how disappointing you believe your life currently is, it is never too late to start reshaping it to become an amazing testimony."
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Personal Development
"Identify darkness in the society and find ways to help illuminate it."
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Personal Development
"To change yourself, let go of what you are and accept what you want to be."
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Personal Development
"Things don't only change, they also change you; sometimes for good, sometimes not."
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Personal Development
"Change is the most beneficial power available to you, simply change the things you don't like, replacing them with your true desires."
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Personal Development
"The ultimate change one can ever seek for is a change in thought. A change in thought is a change in body."
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"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."
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"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
"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
"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."
Competition
"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
"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
"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
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