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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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"You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by."
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"Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!"
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Personal Development
"Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it."
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Personal Development
"Dare to read."
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Personal Development
"The greatest treasures are books."
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Personal Development
"Do not be ready to listen to anyone who is ready to show you your past mistakes instead, be ready to listen to someone who is ready to show you the untold lessons from your past mistakes so that you may be able to skip your future mistakes."
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Personal Development
"We do not need to teach our children how to fight. We need to teach our children the miraculousness and transientness of life."
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Personal Development
"We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree."
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"This corn will teach to you, should you peel away the husk, and be willing to open your ears."
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"Self learner, reading."
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"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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"Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels."
Family
"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."
Achievement
"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."
Cultural
"The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement."
Achievement
"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."
Boys
"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
"A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher."
Learning
"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
"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."
Achievement
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