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"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."
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"Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score."
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"Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly."
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"Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning."
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"Competition is a bad company [kusang, the company which will bring our downfall]."
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"Competition may help us create better products and services but in the end competition really seeks to destroy the opponent. To put him out of the power to compete against you."
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"The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win."
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"Of all matches never was the like."
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"It's not rage that drives me, it's competition."
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"Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you."
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"If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place."
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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
"If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge."
Challenge
"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
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