Eric C. Anderson Quotes

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

Everyone praises Harvard 'for the students.' But what makes Harvard's students so great is that they are, in many ways, a cross-section of the larger world. They are normal people who happen to be excellent, and this sets them apart. People who go to Yale go because they want to attend Yale. People who go to Harvard go because they can.

I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.

The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever.

When I was at Paisley Grammar we were equipped to compete with the private-school kids - and encouraged to do so. The sky was the limit, provided we had ability, ambition and a capacity for hard work.

Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.

Educating bold and ambitious children from cradle to career stands as a clear and foundational goal for Georgia.

The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.

Only cream and SOBs rise to the top.

Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.

The road to hell is paved with Ivy League degrees.

I don't believe in private education.

I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.

I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

Parikrma aims to give underprivileged children an equal chance at education so they can integrate with kids of private schools and, later, with the society. I want these children to hold high-end jobs at multinational companies and not work at the lower end of the spectrum.

I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.

Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.

I think we could all be a bit more elitist.

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.