James S. Coleman

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.

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.

My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.

Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.