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“later start time high school graduation rates increased by more than 11 percent”

— Daniel H. Pink

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten…

— Thomas Sowell

“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

“Forty-two percent of college graduates never read a book after college.”

— John C. Maxwell

“In fact, in the United States, only 27 percent of college grads end up in a career related to their majors.”

— Bill Burnett

The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is constantly…

— Jaron Lanier

“More than 50% of students at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton gave the intuitive—incorrect—answer.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“Lori says, “Look at this. Your SATs are in the 600s. And you have a 3.8 average this semester. That’s really good.” “It’s an…

— Christina Baker Kline

I have done conferences explaining that cloud is a bad idea. It's putting all your eggs in one basket.

— Michael Demon Calce

“by the year 2000, the lifetime risk of incarceration for black high school dropouts was ten times higher than it was for African Americans…

— James Forman Jr

“Colleges should remember that selecting students by GPA more often benefits the faithful drudge than the original mind.”

— William Deresiewicz

I think one percent of the population attended college when Wallace Stevens and Robert Frost and Gertrude Stein were at Harvard. Now I think…

— Robert Hass