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.

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.

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.

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.

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

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.