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“Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and self reliance.”

Needs Self Culture Parent Teaching Security Expectations Encouragement Clarity Balanced Self Reliance Reliance Educator Playfulness

Book:Wise Up

Source: Wise Up

“In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.”

Should Culture Social Ability Class Equal Achievement Expectations Aspiration Affected Motivated Prospects Social Class

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.”

People Men Needs Children Long Has Beens Culture Written Generations Battle Lows Expectations Excuse Access Relevant Future Generation Cursing Making Excuses Low Expectations Nemo

Author:Michael Gove

“Meeting expectations is good. Exceeding expectations is better.”

Culture Expectations Meetings Service Culture Exceeding Expectations

Author:Ron Kaufman

“When customers' expectations change faster than your willingness or ability to serve them, you can be sure they'll be someone else's customers soon.”

Culture Ability Expectations Customers Faster Willingness Service Culture

Author:Ron Kaufman

“But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold.”

Thinking Persons Doe States Culture Cold Expectations Discovery Faults Warmth Womb Cold Outside

Book:Earthly Powers

Source: Earthly Powers

“Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.”

Self Mother Culture Demand Expectations Complicated Internals Being A Mother

Author:Siri Hustvedt

“Normal children of both sexes and all cultures will follow a more or less standard and universal developmental pattern and timetable, and reach approximately the same level of development at maturity. While a particular culture's need and expectations and teaching will shape the course of development and affect adult capabilities to some degree, normal individuals, whatever their native culture, if transplanted and taught, could learn to meet the normal demands of their adapted cultures.”

Source: Daughters: from infancy to independence

“The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can be achieved by politics. The history of the last two centuries confirms what the framers of the Constitution understood: that the perfect is the enemy of the good, and the search for unalloyed virtue in public life leads to unalloyed terror.”

Has Beens Two Important Lasts Law Political Culture Perfect Enemy Virtue Century Expectations Understood Constitution Terror Absence Traditional Public Life Framers Political Culture

Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick

“The best hopes of any community rest upon that class of its gifted young men who are not encumbered with large possessions.... I now speak of extensive scholarship and ripe culture in science and art.... It is not large possessions, it is large expectations, or rather large hopes, that stimulate the ambition of the young.”

Men Art Young Culture Speak Community Class Ambition Expectations Possession Young Man Gifted Scholarship Ripe Art And Science Hoping For The Best

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.”

Important Moments Reality Past Culture Felt Realizing Memories Consciousness Illusion Expectations Present Moment Illusion Of Time

Author:Alan Watts