James S. Coleman Quotes

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way.

My son, before he went to school, he'd eat pretty much everything. Then as soon as he went to school, he got some peer pressure, and other kids would say, 'Oh, you're gonna eat that. That's horrible. That's disgusting.'

Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.

High school dropout rates nationally - Not enough is being done on this issue.

We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of examples of youth competence and confidence.

I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.

I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.

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

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.

I think everybody should go to high school. It's horrible, and it unites you with other people.

For me, high school was the one place where I knew my friends were gonna be, so I was there. I didn't like it, I wasn't involved in things, and they didn't teach me anything that I needed to know. But my mom said I had to go, and so I went.

If I didn't finish high school, I would wonder about that part of my life.

A lot of friends I went to school with were criminals.

I didn't graduate eighth grade. I could have, but I got into too many fights in middle school.

If you're planning on dropping out of high school, prepare yourself for the future by repeating aloud each day: 'I'm looking forward to low-paying jobs for the rest of my life.'

Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker.

The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.

Your peers when you're a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life's great injustices, that you can move on and be accomplished and happy, but the moment you see someone from high school you immediately become the person you were then, not the person you are now.

When people are watching you, it makes you think twice about what you do, and the things you say, and the people you hang around with.