Aptitude Quote by David Brooks

The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular over the…

— David Brooks

Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they die, God…

— David Brooks

The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition is by…

— Thorstein Veblen

Facebook is the first class of social networking. If MySpace is Camden Lock then Facebook is Harvey Nichols.

— Claudia Winkleman

If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a…

— David Simon

Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among…

— F. Sionil Jose

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

— Hugh Mackay

History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.

— Calvin Coolidge

We want to emulate the educated class, even if we don't think of educated people as a class these days.

— Kory Stamper

The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in…

— Abigail Adams

“It is a noteworthy feature of 20C culture that for the first time in over a thousand years its educated class is not expected…

— Jacques Barzun

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

— Lionel Trilling