Ability Quote by Drew Gilpin Faust

When students get into a great university, it's a huge aspirational lift for their village. These students become beacons of hope.

— Roshni Nadar

“This describes Americans today. In middle school, we’re encouraged to start hoarding “extracurricular activities.” In high school, ambitious students compete even harder to appear…

— Peter Thiel

When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must…

— Christine Gregoire

Taking full advantage of all that college offers can be tough for teens facing a major life transition under pressure to perform. Perhaps we…

— Rachel Simmons

“All students are unique individuals with their own hopes, talents, anxieties, fears, passions, and aspirations. Engaging them as individuals is the heart of raising…

— Ken Robinson

Starting in high school and continuing through our higher education system, we must ensure our students are on the right path to acquiring marketable…

— Pat McCrory

“The university is well structured, well tooled, to turn out people with all the sharp edges worn off, the well-rounded person. The university is…

— Mario Savio

“Universities, he (William Dershowitz) says, have been absorbed into the commercial ethos. Instead of being intervals of freedom, they are breeding grounds for advancement.…

— David Brooks

“need to cultivate persistent, purposeful, focused effort to be lifelong learners. On the one hand, a student can rely too heavily on talent and…

— Eric Jensen

“people who succeed tend to find one goal in the distant future and then chase it through thick and thin. People who flit from…

— David Brooks

Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.

— Anonymous

If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly…

— Malcolm Gladwell