Doing better Quote by Jack Kerouac

“What we're really sending you to Harvard for is to get a little of the educations that's so good and plenty there. When it's…

— George Horace Lorimer

“Harvard College was probably less hurtful than any other university then in existence. It taught little, and that little ill, but it left the…

— Henry Adams

“The best gadget is the human brain.”

— Ed Kovacs

“We don’t care about who you are, what you’re interested in, and what you can become. We don’t care about learning. We will love…

— Carol S. Dweck

“The other day a patient told me that he had gotten into what was a very good college. 'It's not Harvard,' he said. 'Harvard's…

— Mark Vonnegut

“For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds, as they…

— René Descartes

Almost nothing anyone told me about Harvard has been accurate.

— Alexandra Petri

“A student once walked into the office of Harvard Dean LeBaron Russell Briggs and said he hadn't done his assignment because he hadn't felt…

— LeBaron Russell Briggs

“...if I've learned one thing in my decades on earth, it's this: Don't argue with your lizard brain; it knows you better than you…

— Sara Nelson

“The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls,…

— J.K. Rowling

“If you detect something mindless about American education, it's because the mind has been taken out of it. Only visible behavior counts.”

— Samuel L. Blumenfeld

“The mind is a storehouse with great capacity, but is often filled with dubious knowledge and meaningless trivialities. In truth, much of this -…

— Stevenson Willis