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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."
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"People won't respect you until you achieve the respectable goals."
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Personal Development
"By becoming a black belt, you will become whatever it is you wanted to be in the first place, and Jiu Jitsu will have served its aim."
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"To stand on a mountain top, you must first create the mountain."
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"Every great soul was inspired by another great soul."
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"Success is not about impressing and pleasing everyone, but setting your own goals, and achieving them in your own time."
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"The secret to success is belief and hard work."
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"Moving forward with success is a greater accomplishment, when we bring others along with us."
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"One is not born a genius one becomes a genius."
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"The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved."
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"Here is the truth: The journey to achievement is not a destination, it is only a stop over to the next goal."
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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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"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
"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
"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
"In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student."
Boys
"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
"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."
Competition
"I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him."
School
"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
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