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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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"There is no substitute for education."
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Personal Development
"Schooling gives you knowledge, but education makes you wise."
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Personal Development
"It is difficult to learn what you do not enjoy. So love every bit of knowledge and enjoy every moment."
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"Learning is like the fuel that moves the machinery of your body towards it's destination of success. Shortage is possible, hence spare supply is necessary!"
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"Devote yourself to reading, learning and writing."
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"Analyze and correct your past mistakes before they paralyze your future! An undiscovered error will always crave for repetition. Kick out errors, enjoy a bright future!"
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"We can find the answers will seek in books."
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"Discover. Read. Learn."
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"Through self-development, you can continuously fortify yourself for the next level of increase."
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"No policeman had ever arrested anyone for over-reading; but ignorance prosecutes those who under-read. You begin to stop growing on the day you stop learning, so why not keep learning and keep growing!"
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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."
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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
"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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