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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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