Endowment Quote by Jess Row

“Smart enough to get into Yale. Economists studied students who had been admitted to two schools of higher and lower prestige but decided to…

— Chip Heath

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of…

— Benno C. Schmidt, Jr

I've spent my entire adult life teaching at colleges of various kinds, all of them very different from Yale, and I have a fairly…

— Jess Row

Because I was from the Midwest and untrained, I was completely open and ready to try anything. Many of my classmates were cynical and…

— Laila Robins

I used to ask myself why American universities are financed through endowments. Now I know: During the early days of America, the state was…

— Zhang Xin

The naturally advantaged are not to gain merely because they are more gifted, but only to cover the costs of training and education and…

— John Rawls

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare…

— Shia LaBeouf

To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School of Environmental…

— Edward Norton

While at Harvard, I was struck by the palpable sense of noblesse oblige that surrounds their sophisticated outreach and bursary programmes. It is almost…

— David Lammy

“More recently, faculty at the University of Texas condemned “Western Civilization” courses as inherently right wing, and Yale even returned a $20 million contribution…

— Rodney Stark

But I have to say, in my 12 years as the dean of admissions at Yale Law School, there was a lot of legal…

— Asha Rangappa

Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.

— Ezra Cornell