Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

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.

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.

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.

Like a brilliant shooting star, she had almost reached her zenith when her light was extinguished.

Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.

Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?

I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.

If you wait for others to initiate change you automatically become a follower.

Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

The world's state sponsor of terrorism is now on path, sanctioned by the United States, to create nuclear weapons. We are going to make it possible for them.

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.