Steven Crowder Quotes

It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

I've had people accuse me of being too tough of a grader. But my job is to paint reality versus telling people what they want to hear.

Ability is sexless.

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.

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.

In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

A fair field and no favor!

The Scholastic Aptitude Tests do not predict success any better than the socio economic status of the parents.

It's equal opportunity for all, and we don't play favourites.

Like my father, I used to believe that hard work and mastery of a standardized exam was the fairest way for students like me to compete with those who had far more resources.

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.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.

I think the debate around nepotism is futile because I am an outsider and I know that there is no compensation of talent.

I was a firm believer that every cricketer needs to get a fair chance.

I accept a character purely based on its merits and not on any other criteria.

The discovery I made was that, really, in America, if you went to high school in our country, it doesn't really matter where you went to high school. In a funny way, all high schools are the same.

I'm all for competition; competition is good. I just want to make sure the playing field is level.

We're so used to the tests telling me if I'm smart or not. It's telling me if I know the material or not.

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.

Real progress will have been made when people don't care or even notice the color of a comedian when they'll just be concerned with whether he's funny.

When it comes to efficiency, standardized tests almost sound heaven-sent.

At the end of the day, you're just another person in society. It doesn't matter how much fame you have. It doesn't matter how much money you have.

I just want the respect I deserve. Not for what I can do in the future but what I've done in the past. And I just want a fair opportunity, a fair chance, a fair shot to play basketball.