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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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"When you become a transformer, you become faced with the challenge of skepticism."
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"You stand the risk of a down turn, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."
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"To understand me you should reach my level at my game, so far you are somewhere down I am above."
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"The greater your destiny the greater your troubles."
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"No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around."
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"It is in vain to try and kick the wind."
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"Life's greatest challenge are the manifestations of our dreams."
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"Don't be restricted to your comfort zone alone."
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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

"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

"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

"A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher."
Learning

"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

"The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement."
Achievement

"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

"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."
Success

"Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels."
Family
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