The World Motivation
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.
“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.”
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.
Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.
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.
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply can't overcome their desire to make art, and will live on little income for as long as they have to, before they start to sell their work - or give up and get a paying job.
My mother used to ask, 'Why do you always write such sad songs?' I don't know if I was different from a lot of adolescents in that respect.
Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent.
The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.
Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.
In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.
I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.