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"Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins."
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"Success means you have succeeded in overcoming the obstacles and finally realizing the goal."
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Personal Development
"Do not compete with anyone. Seek to exceed your own expectations."
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"Don't be satisfied with a particular sphere of influence only."
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"To be a success, water your dream with optimism and love."
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"To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yourself and come out of your mental limitations."
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"Success is working with enthusiasm and ambition, living with joy and kindness, and going toward a life of ultimate service and happiness."
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"Be bold, be a success, and change the world."
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"What you do without expectations defines your success."
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"You are the child of this universe, you have the right to success and peace."
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"Success is important but what you become on the way to success is more important."
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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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