top of page
.png){kind=small}
"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."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Achievement quotes
"Stand tall on the summit after a tedious climb. Take in the remarkable scenery and the exhilaration of accomplishment. But don't pause for long, there are greater mountains to climb while you still possess the drive and capacity to do so."
"A successful person's life is made up of a time when he gets out of bed, and a time he goes to bed; and in-between them is filled up with a time that he makes sure something definitely happened!"
"Don't expect others to hand success to you. Create it - with heart, energy and enterprise - and you'll make it come true."
"Many people do not understand why they cannot do well in their lives, even with a lot of training, using short- term and long term plans and most importantly having a huge potential."
"Great men look greater than yesterday."
"Every man has a need to be great at something."
"What you conquer in your youth is your trophy in adulthood."
"The greater the fruit a tree bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it."
"When you can actually measure your day by how much time is converted into products, then you are a great force on the earth."
"A person can be successful in any sphere that God has called him to."
Explore more quotes by James S. Coleman
"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."
"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."
"In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student."
"Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins."
"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."
"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."
"If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious 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."
"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."
"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."
bottom of page