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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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"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
"When you push yourself hard enough to be consistent with your positive endeavors, you would surely become a future living testimony of how beautiful life can be."
"Success is a process of learning, growth, progression and faithfulness."
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"People won't respect you until you achieve the respectable goals."
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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."
"If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge."
"The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's 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."
"In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels."
"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."
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