"One of the most consistent findings about low performing schools and students is that "home variables" (parental income and education, etc.) are more predictive than "school variables." But, having said that, we as a society can have much more effect on the school variables than on the home variables, so it's important and valuable to focus on the question of which interventions in schools are most effective and which are least effective."

-- Nicholas Lemann

#Home Quotes #School Quotes #Focus Quotes

“Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.”

Source : Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.234, Broadview Press
“The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.”
“I think you have to show homage to creators.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the very essence of, that sublime system which gives the venerable institution its peculiar identity as a science of morality, and it behooves every disciple diligently to ponder and inwardly digest.”
“If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.”
“After all, how often do we get a second chance?”

Source : Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.19, Penguin
“Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible.”
“Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2015). “Allan Quatermain”, p.196, Sheba Blake Publishing

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