1. "We do ability grouping early on in childhood...if we look at young kids, in kindergarten and first grade, the teachers are confusing maturity with ability."
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Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers สัมฤทธิ์พิศวง
2. "Symmetry order is the disorder of grouping order, and grouping order is the disorder of symmetry order. If the order of one is the disorder of the other, then there is no room for a general disorder. All there is in nature is ordered patterns of one type or the other, and combinations thereof."
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Gevin Giorbran, Everything Forever: Learning To See Timelessness
3. "They have a national policy where they have no ability grouping until the age of ten. Denmark waits to make selection decisions until maturity differences by age have evened out."
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Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
4. "Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway."
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Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
5. "Fear dominates. Thus come charismatic leaders to protect these classes and populist organizations to convince them they belong to an identity, which is merely a social grouping that is no longer coherent."
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Michael Hardt, Declaration
6. "Everything, indeed, in a work of art should be unedited,--and even the words, by the manner of grouping them, of shaping them to new meanings,--and one often regrets having an alphabet familiar to too many half-lettered persons."
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Rémy de Gourmont, The Book of Masks
7. "learn better skills; and the next year, because they are in the higher groups, they do even better; and the next year, the same thing happens, and they do even better again. The only country we don’t see this going on is Denmark. They have a national policy where they have no ability grouping until the age of"
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Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
8. "San Narciso lay further south, near L.A. Like many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts—census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway."
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Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
9. "If you are serious about education, then you need to start a lot earlier than fifteen years old to give each child a decent shot at life in the real world, as distinguished from make-believe equality while in school. Ability grouping or tracking—so hated by the ideological egalitarians—is one of the best ways of doing that."
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Thomas Sowell, The Thomas Sowell Reader
10. "Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. It stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals…"
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Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays