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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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"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."
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Personal Development
"Luck appears when you are working towards it, not looking for it."
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Personal Development
"No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better."
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Personal Development
"You attract poverty when you lack value for time."
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Personal Development
"I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there."
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Personal Development
"Don't neglect any tiny opportunity that comes your way. They will lead you to greater opportunities you have been expecting to win."
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Personal Development
"Joblessness gives you unlimited access to wealth."
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Personal Development
"If the risk-reward ratio is right you can make big money buying trouble."
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Personal Development
"All what you have to do is to accept, to be bold and open to the world and the world will open it's gates for you."
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Personal Development
"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one."
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"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
"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 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
"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
"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."
Competition
"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
"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
"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
"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
"A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher."
Learning
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