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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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"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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"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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Personal Development
"Competition to further the world of pursuing ego=bad. Competition to improve both capabilities and processes = good."
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Personal Development
"Compete with yourself, you have no knowledge about the degree of gifting others might have. Don't decide to slow down because you have gone too far and everyone is behind you!"
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"I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision."
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"Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes."
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"Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing."
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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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Personal Development
"If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win."
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"They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers."
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"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."
Competition
"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
"Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins."
Success
"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
"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
"In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student."
Boys
"If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge."
Challenge
"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
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