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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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"You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!"
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"Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals."
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"Competition to further the world of pursuing ego=bad. Competition to improve both capabilities and processes = good."
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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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"Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But the trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all."
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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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"Life can often be a competition and your greatest opponent is yourself."
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"If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner."
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"If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first."
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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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"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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"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 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
"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."
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"If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge."
Challenge
"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
"Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels."
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
"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
"Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins."
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