Life Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“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

It's fashionable with the Sarah Palin set to attack Harvard and treat its graduates as elitists. But if you spend any time on campus,…

— David Ignatius

I get flack for saying [when I visit a college and give a speech], "This is a nice college, but the really great educator…

— Charlie Munger

“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

“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

[My father] was also a lawyer in his bank and specialized in tax law. He would have to do the tax returns for all…

— Paul Laffoley

“According to one Harvard study, more students attended America’s elite universities from the top 1 per cent of income backgrounds than from the bottom…

— Edward Luce

These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where…

— Michael N. Castle

“Fellows of colleges do not always find money matters easy to understand: if they did, they would probably not have been the sort of…

— C.S. Lewis

There is another innovation at Harvard which I think made a tremendous difference and that is the decision to try to recruit the very…

— Henry Rosovsky