Big fish Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

“those at the very top of the class—are going to face a burden that they would not face in a less competitive atmosphere. Citizens…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Virtually all of the advantage that wealthy students have over poor students is the result of differences in the way privileged kids learn while…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Some colleges have become institutions that no longer thrive on education, but rather on the suffering, expense, toil, and insecurity of their students, as…

— Loren Mayshark

Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers.

— Michele Bachmann

“What is different today, and especially worrisome when it comes to the creation of educated citizens, is how the protective, swaddling environment of the…

— Thomas M. Nichols

Every child is entitled to an academic education. But resilience, stickability, self-esteem - they need these things, too, and even more than the privately…

— Nicky Morgan

“The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to…

— Bill Bryson

The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.

— Harry Wong

“The effect of education I suppose”

— Jane Austen

Education is too important to be left solely to the educators

— Francis Keppel

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

— Robert Frost

So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas…

— William James