Academic Disparity Quotes

In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded - here I am speaking of the U.S. - while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school, there is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien - and very often they believe themselves superior.

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

I'm the only tenured black faculty in the sciences at Columbia, in the middle of Harlem.

In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.

I am no longer a scientist as I stopped in 2000. Science was quite a testing place to be as a working-class woman.

The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long after Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge had discovered the atomic nucleus and begun transmuting elements, the physics laboratory at Oxford had not been wired for electricity. Intellectuals neglect technical education to this day.

We were totally opposite - me coming from the West Coast and a junior college, and him [ Christopher Reeve] from the hard-core Ivy League. He used to be the studly studly of all studlies, and I was the little fool ferret boy.

In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.

Elite private-school educations leave students unprepared for a standardized test with which their public school counterparts are innately familiar.

I was good in biology, but I did very badly in chemistry, and my parents were horrified by that.

With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that.

We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.

I wasn't a great student. My brother is 18 months older than me, so he sort of forged the way for me at school.

I was spectacularly average at school, while my two brothers did really well academically. But my dad never said I didn't try hard enough. He knew I did my best.