Abstract
"Anyone who has ever taught children surely recognizes that schooling will be relatively in effective when either its goals or its methods are at odds with competing forces in the student's environment. When one purpose of activities in the school, for example, is to teach civility and tolerance, but social patterns outside the school teach meanness and narrowness, the school may have little impact in accomplishing these important goals."
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