Boon Quote by Diane Ravitch
“The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.”
“The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.”
![“While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely arrived when they were due to fill the places that had been waiting for them from the day they were born, it was, at the same time, opening its doors to…” quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c8d/doris-kearns-goodwin-1951_born_while-its-harvard-s-undergraduate-life-w_1780124.jpg)
