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"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."
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"Excellence never seeks excuses."
"Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound."
"Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done."
"Don't pay attention to people Who tell you can't do it at lenght. Trusting your own instincts Can lead to what's quintessential. Make their limitation be your strenght. You might as well contradict them And then reach your full potential."
"Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride."
"A successful person's life is made up of a time when he gets out of bed, and a time he goes to bed; and in-between them is filled up with a time that he makes sure something definitely happened!"
"Don't measure life against time. Measure life by the milestones you have reached."
"Mark this on your wall and remember it always: The greatest single most powerful enemy to success is success itself."
"Seek wisdom, and success will find you."
"The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community."
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"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."
"A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels."
"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."
"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."
"Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so."
"In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student."
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