“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
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
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
“capitalization learning”: we get good at something by building on the strengths that we are naturally given.” — 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
“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
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
“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
“One of the most important tools in contemporary educational research is value added analysis.” — 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
“extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make” — 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“You master mathematics if you are willing to try. That’s what Schoenfeld attempts to teach his students.” — 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
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“neighborhood was filled with engineers from Hewlett-Packard, then as now one of” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
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 Image
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