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"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."
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"The window of opportunity is always open, just you have to find it."
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Personal Development
"Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists but the possessor of ignorance shall always be ignorant of opportunities."
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Personal Development
"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner."
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"Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it."
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Personal Development
"You must explore the timeless opportunities in life."
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Personal Development
"It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. She supposed if you could predict or foresee everything that was going to happen, you'd lose the motivation to go through it all. The promise was always in the possibility."
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"We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it's gone forever."
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Personal Development
"Everyone gets in life in about 3 chances in one place. But everything is about how he wise he will use this chances!"
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Personal Development
"Why fish in the pond when you live right next to the sea?"
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Personal Development
"There are endless opportunities in life."
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"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
"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
"If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge."
Challenge
"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 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."
Act
"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
"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."
Competition
"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
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