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.

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.

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.

All I do is go to the movies.

To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes, to find how you look when asleep.

I know for me, and what the Bible teaches, I want to have a relationship with Jesus.

I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success.

I've always been a bit insecure about my smile, but its days like these where all I wanna do is smile.

When pride thaws, look for floods.

It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.