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

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.

Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.

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

There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.

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.