Schools Quotes by James S. Coleman

It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most…

— James S. Coleman

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

— James S. Coleman

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

— James S. Coleman

For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that…

— James S. Coleman

The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.

— James S. Coleman

Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended…

— James S. Coleman

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process…

— James S. Coleman

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

— James S. Coleman

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

It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college,…

— James S. Coleman

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.

— James S. Coleman

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

— James S. Coleman