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

It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.

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

I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him.

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

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.

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.