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"A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher."
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"Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it."
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Personal Development

"This corn will teach to you, should you peel away the husk, and be willing to open your ears."
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"Earning is a product of learning. You're only one letter away from earning more."
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Personal Development

"I'm one of the few persons I ever met who are able to learn from experience."
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"I simply wish to continue to learn, & try to do what I have to do, better."
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"When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue."
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"To teach, learn. To learn, teach."
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"We learn better when learning is a game."
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Personal Development

"Experience is the only subject worthwhile of study."
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Personal Development

"Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people."
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"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

"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

"A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher."
Learning

"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

"The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement."
Achievement

"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."
School

"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

"Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins."
Success

"Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels."
Family

"In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student."
Boys
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