"A child’s learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher."
― James S. Coleman
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― James S. Coleman
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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."
- "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."
- "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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- "In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine."― Noam Chomsky
- "Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt."― Peter Agre
- "I had a great movement teacher – he showed me how to walk so I wasn’t becoming like a cartoon."― John Leguizamo