America Quote by Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and…

— Mark Kennedy

“In Qinghua, 82 per cent of graduates of some science faculties leave for developed countries and in Peking University it is 76 per cent.”

— Gordon G. Chang

“According to one Harvard study, more students attended America’s elite universities from the top 1 per cent of income backgrounds than from the bottom…

— Edward Luce

“In fact, in the United States, only 27 percent of college grads end up in a career related to their majors.”

— Bill Burnett

The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as…

— Bill Gates

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high…

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get…

— Peter Diamandis

We know that to compete for the jobs of the 21st century and thrive in a global economy, we need a growing, skilled and…

— Mark Pocan

In China, we intend to acquire advanced technology, science and management skills to serve our socialist production. And these things as such have no…

— Deng Xiaoping

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten…

— Thomas Sowell

China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined nation, the opposite of an immigrant nation.…

— Amy Chua

Less than one percent of U.S. college students attend Ivy League schools, and these students don't necessarily reflect the world's brightest and most capable…

— Sebastian Thrun