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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."
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"One who takes the road less traveled earns the rewards most missed."
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Personal Development
"The more difficult a problem is, the more discoveries you make in the process of resolving it."
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Personal Development
"When you become a transformer, you become faced with the challenge of skepticism."
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Personal Development
"You stand the risk of a down turn, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."
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Personal Development
"Impossible things are really rough to do, you know."
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Personal Development
"To understand me you should reach my level at my game, so far you are somewhere down I am above."
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Personal Development
"Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow."
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Personal Development
"Today, some chess games can't go in 40 minutes. One game not every time can finish fast, sometimes it's difficult to win and the ways are odd."
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Personal Development
"We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet."
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Personal Development
"We are the mountains we must cross."
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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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