"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 position, but in effect lowers the position of others."

-- James S. Coleman

#Class Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Ranking Quotes

“Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends. Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations.”

Source : Joyce Cary (1957). “THE HORSE'S MOUTH”
“Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished.”
“An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.”

Source : Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2006). “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything”, p.121, Penguin UK
“It's an accompaniment to life. It's not something that I do to rap; I smoke when I open my eyes...I don't know any other feeling.”
“You know, what I didn't know was how many people in the tech world the original movie had such an impression on. That's really interesting to me because a lot of the people who created this technological revolution that we're all living through were kids when Tron came out, and they saw Tron and it impacted them.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“A liberal was somebody who expected and hoped that government would help the poor - you know, that whole routine. I did not know then and I've learned since that in an area that means a lot to me, free speech, liberals are as bad as many conservatives in trying to censor speech.”

Source : Source: thedailyhatch.org
“A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.”
“You have to get out in the world and meet folks on their own turf, something which a lot of urban radical intellectuals seldom do.”

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