Salvador Allende Quotes

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

To go to USC without a scholarship is next to impossible.

If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.

I stood as well as any in my class, but the test of scholarship at that day was contemptible

Mr. Morse is a scholar and a gentleman—an able man—an accomplished artist—and we should on 99 accounts to support him. But the hundredth forbids it. Somehow or other he has gotten warped in his politics.

When I am asked whether the division between the left and the right still has any meaning, the first thought that comes to my mind is that the person who asks the question is not on the left.

Legacies, athletes, and favored racial minorities all receive preferential treatment from admissions committees to the exclusion of academically better-qualified students.

I don't hire anybody not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them.

I was not a great student at the University of Chicago. I think that is - the record will bare me out. But I spent a lot of time reading history, sociology, psychology - reading everything except what I was supposed to read for class the next day.

Life operates by deserve. So, in leading people, learn to work with the people who deserve it, not the people who need it.

I found my student of the year, and now Tata Nano is searching for India's student of the year

But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.

A boy who gets a C- in 'Appreciation of Television' can't be all bad.

In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.

The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.

I don't make a lot of mistakes, honestly. I'm an A-student, I'm an Ivy Leaguer. I need those things.

No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.

Leadership matters and solving things before a crisis is important.

We all desperately need love. If a spouse in a difficult marriage will learn the love language of that spouse, and they will, with the help of God, consistently speak their love language no matter how they are treated.

Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.

Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.