"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, Schools, Students, Teaching

31

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Cultural quotes

"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."

Mark Crispin Miller, American Journalist

Cultural, Culture

"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail."

Malcolm Bradbury, English Novelist

Cultural, Culture, Detail, World

"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Cultural, Culture, Hatred, Will

"What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself."

Thomas Frank, American Author

Cultural, Culture

"The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism."

Phyllis Schlafly, American Activist

Cultural, Culture, Feminism, Radical

"Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute."

James E. Rogers, American Educator

Cultural, Culture, Economy, Research, Will

"The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American."

Stan Brakhage, American Director

Cultural,

"No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Cultural, Culture, Mohandas Gandhi

"Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees."

Tony Hsieh, American Businessman

Cultural, Culture, Employees, Forget, Service

"It's a song that we sing after we win a Test match. We sing it after every one-day series win. It's been passed down through the generations. It's the culture of the Australian team."

Ricky Ponting, Australian Athlete

Cultural, Culture, Generations, Song

Explore more quotes by James S. Coleman

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

Success

"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

"If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge."

Challenge

"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."

Competition

"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

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

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."

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

"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