Many of the differences that cause students to be excluded in school are actually the same qualities or skills that other people are going to admire, respect or value about that person in adulthood.
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It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.
Across the globe, disadvantaged children are not living up to their potential because if they attend school at all, the schools are usually not designed to meet their extra needs.
A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why.
Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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