You cannot raise a healthy, stable child in a 12-month grant cycle, and you can't drive lasting, community-focused change by conforming to status quo ideas.
"There's something quite anarchic about not conforming with the status quo of sustainability: local, seasonal, organic.
"Substandard," the dictionary tells us, "indicates status conforming to a pattern of linguistic usage that exists throughout the American language community but differs in choice of word or form from that of the prestige group in that community".
And yet many of us who would quickly reject an interest in conforming with the status quo find ourselves developing, or at least acquiescing to teach, curricula designed to equip students with what are held to be the specific skills they will need to be successful in particular contexts, academic and sociocultural, in the future contexts.
Additionally, "[n]ineteen percent (19%) had been refused treatment by a doctor or other provider because of their transgender or gender non-conforming status".
Results showed that participants were more likely to conform to high status peers than to low status peers, that influencer's level of popularity was stronger associated with peer conformity than their likeability, and that influencee's status (either popularity or likeability) played a lesser role in these effects than initially expected.
BBC Trustees should be appointed based on their ability to challenge, not conform to, the status quo.
Irons, who will return to the stage with the director Richard Eyre for the Bristol Old Vic's production of Long Day's Journey Into Night next week, said he had not gone into his profession in order to conform to the status quo.
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I will concede that learning about one's own ethnic history can be unsettling to young learners and there may be some teachers who have a social agenda that might not conform to the status quo.
Even though it wasn't a party growing up with that bicultural tension -- the American side of me embracing my individuality, while the Korean side nagging me to conform to the status quo -- I feel lucky to have had the tension.
