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Students Quotes by 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.
- 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.
- The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.
- In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.
- Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his…
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