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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. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#education #effectively #high #high schools #impedes

For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#attitudes #change #changing #complex #cultural

And she thought then how strange it was that disaster--the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face--could be at times, such a thing of beauty. ↗

— Anita Shreve

#disaster #beauty

One thing I've learned about vampires--they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#bad-ass #funny #funny

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. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#board #child #educational #fellow #fellow students

The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#adverse #background #backgrounds #children #educational

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

— James S. Coleman

#competition #effects #examples #high #high schools

The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints. ↗

— John Coleman

#america #carbon #carbon dioxide #citizens #dioxide

Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now. ↗

— Jerry Coleman

#book #each #know #like #now

You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you. ↗

— Jerry Coleman

#because #been #fired #liable #never