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

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

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

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.

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.

Humans are vulnerable, because they’re capable of being hurt.

Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment.Sebastopol by Leo Tolstoy

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom.

We live in a time where brands are people and people are brands.

I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

Her son lives. He has her eyes, precisely her eyes. You remember the shape and color of Lily Evans's eyes, I am sure?

Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.

General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.