All Quotes By Tag: Education

“The happiest have found adult achievement arenas that do engage them, occasionally through the luck of good early choices, sometimes by leaving worn paths, and most often through exploring themselves and careers with the help of guides and sponsors.”

“Just as the stereotypes of the one-sided academic grind or the obsessed genius are myths for high school valedictorians, also false is the conception of academic achievers as troubled individuals effective only in school.”

“Valedictorians were highly motivated to excel academically because of early family and school experiences.”

“Higher education, in contrast, did not always keep its promise to develop the talents of even its best students. Left with classroom achievement alone, many students never found a negotiable path to a clearly envisioned career corresponding to their deepest interests and values.”

“For all students, a network of career exploration opportunities, sponsors, and mentors is a critical accompaniment to coursework.”

“Are schools rewarding the right people as the highest achievers? If the goal is hard-working, productive, adaptable adults, then U.S. high schools are recognizing precisely the correct group.”

“Academically capable men and women almost never follow a single-minded interest from childhood into careers.”

“As a group, valedictorians have always led well-rounded, socially integrated, ‘normal’ lives.”

“Female valedictorians marry a little later and participate somewhat more heavily in paid work than women in their age group nationally.”

“In their early thirties, the most career-invested women and men in the Illinois Valedictorian Project are those who have found deep personal meaning in vocations. Those qualities and conditions that keep students centered on work are different than those that made them high school valedictorian.”

“To reach the head of the class, students needed to conform to the school system and work equally hard at all subjects.”

“Failure in Life is for Learning to get success”

“Leaders are readers and learners are earners.”

“What makes this study different is that it studies Japanese cross-cultural adaptation by focusing on student success rather than student difficulties.”

“Lack of a formal education is a death sentence to some and an opportunity to explore for others”