“One of the most important tools in contemporary educational research is value added analysis.” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“You master mathematics if you are willing to try. That’s what Schoenfeld attempts to teach his students.” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“capitalization learning”: we get good at something by building on the strengths that we are naturally given.” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“That the best students from mediocre schools were almost always a better bet than good students from the very best schools.” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“How you feel about your abilities—your academic “self-concept”—in the context of your classroom shapes your willingness to tackle challenges and finish difficult… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“It is a strange thing, isn’t it, to have an educational philosophy that thinks of the other students in the classroom with… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Virtually all of the advantage that wealthy students have over poor students is the result of differences in the way privileged kids… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“The phenomenon of relative deprivation applied to education is called—appropriately enough—the “Big Fish–Little Pond Effect.” The more elite an educational institution is,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“One of the main reasons college professors accept a lower paycheck than they could get in private industry is that university life… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“it is when thus relieved from the state of tension belonging to actual study that boys and girls, as well as men… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
And my advice for college graduates is don't reflexively give money to your alma mater, something particular to Americans that I find… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
A study at the University of Utah found that if you ask someone why he is friendly with someone else, he’ll say… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“With classrooms like this one, people will call what is happening a behavioral issue,” Hamre said. We were watching one of Stella’s… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“though, will improve her math and reading skills, and every carefree summer day she spends puts her further and further behind Alex.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“What are we seeing here? One very real possibility is that these are the educational consequences of the differences in parenting styles… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“those at the very top of the class—are going to face a burden that they would not face in a less competitive… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“If we want to, say, develop schools in disadvantaged communities that can successfully counteract the poisonous atmosphere of their surrounding neighborhoods, this… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“program and not. “It’s just like sports,” Dhuey said. “We do ability grouping early on in childhood. We have advanced reading groups… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“as it may be—matters. How you feel about your abilities—your academic “self-concept”—in the context of your classroom shapes your willingness to tackle… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“According to research done by Mitchell Chang of the University of California, the likelihood of someone completing a STEM degree—all things being… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“We have become obsessed with what is good about small classrooms and oblivious about what also can be good about large classes.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
“The scholars who research happiness suggest that more money stops making people happier at a family income of around seventy-five thousand dollars a year.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
“Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a veteran of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
“neighborhood was filled with engineers from Hewlett-Packard, then as now one of” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
“People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But they are ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
“An archway to one side leads to a church, the Madonna del Carmine—Our Lady of Mount Carmine. Narrow” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
“Most psychologists believe that nature—genetics—accounts for about half of the reason why we tend to act the way we do. His point is simply… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
