Believing Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then…

— Halton Arp

“Ma, once told his son: “You don’t have to be the top student in your class, being mediocre is just as fine, just as…

— Think Maverick

High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

To my mind by far the greatest danger in scholarship...is not that the individual may fail to master the thought of a school but…

— Geoffrey Sampson

The best students are ones that are willing to take intellectual risks and challenge conventional thinking.

— Oren Etzioni

Every student, without exception, should be able to succeed well at something consequential.

— Ted Sizer

Stop teaching students that they are the best and the brightest.

— David Maister

Sometimes you have Harvard undergraduates who stun you with the depth of their knowledge. That is why it is great to be at a…

— Athanasios Orphanides

Many kids think unless they go to one of these great Ivy League schools, which I was lucky enough to go to later, that…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

The dumbing down of elementary and secondary education has made its way to the collegiate level; too many unprepared students are admitted despite their…

— Charlie Sykes

“When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where despite the recent proliferation of courses…

— Barbara Ehrenreich