"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."
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"A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.“
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"A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher."
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"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."
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"The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education."
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"How sweet it is!"
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"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."
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