Malcolm Gladwell Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Music, School

  "Outliers". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

• The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book." There is surely something to that. But it wasn't just the children of rabbis who went to law school. It was the children of garment workers. And their critical advantage in climbing the professional ladder wasn't the intellectual rigor you get from studying the Talmud. It was the practical intelligence and savvy you get from watching your father sell aprons on Hester Street.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Children, Father, Book

  Malcolm Gladwell (2008). “Outliers: The Story of Success”, p.230, Penguin UK

• When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement. If a white student from a prestigious private high school gets a higher SAT score than a black student from an inner-city school, is it because she’s truly a better student, or is it because to be white and to attend a prestigious high school is to be constantly primed with the idea of “smart”?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Smart, School, Simple

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, 2005.

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