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

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

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.

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.

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

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.

As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.

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

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.

I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him.

The desire for connection with the Divine and our formless inner self is at the foundation of all desire for human connection.

The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.

A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.

Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.

In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.

Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up.

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

I'm not the prototype wide receiver. But I like to think I'm one hell of a football player.

You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.

The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.