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

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

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.

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

the prudent business mind must not only think of competing with the prevailing giants in the market but must also not be oblivious of the latent deft of the masses who are yet to dare

fighting for transformational change does not require violence it requires one attitude called LOVE

What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.

This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.

Now I know a lot about NATO - NATO is obsolete, and the reason it's obsolete is because of the fact they don't focus on terrorism.

Businesses get better only when the people in the business get better.

The people who hate SICP are the ones who just want to know how to drive their car on the highway, just like everyone else.

I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.

In painting, the key is not taking myself seriously to the point where it kills sincerity.

So that I may meet the day with the knowledge to build the day I will look into my soul while it still dawn, before the morning breaketh.