May 26, 2006, 4:41pm

Finally I have finished this book. :)

p. 331-332:

While they [the resilient] hardly went to choice schools (since many were poor), the contrast with home was extreme. Those who were good students probably got the best of what their schools had to offer; but for all of them, school was an ordered world, a place to be competent, a universe in which the junctures met. They could predict what would happen there.

Higgins, G. O. (1994). Resilient Adults: Overcoming a Cruel Past. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

I would add that, when I have got what I can get from school, I begin to see what the schools should do better.