“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.”
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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.
A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.
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.
When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.
