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"The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement."
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"Run well and win in this race of life by converting your time into added values and products."
"I have found the more worthwhile something is, the more of your life is required to achieve it."
"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
"Success is a process of learning, growth, progression and faithfulness."
"Every great accomplishments requires great grace and great enthusiasm."
"People won't respect you until you achieve the respectable goals."
"Before you accomplish your dreams physically, your inner make up, mindset, emotions and perception have fought the battle mentally and that already determined how the battle will be fought physically."
"In our deepest valleys we are strengthened to climb our highest mountains."
"Success is not about impressing and pleasing everyone, but setting your own goals, and achieving them in your own time."
"Every meaningful success I have accomplished was made possible by love."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels."
"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."
"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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