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I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.

— Julian Castro

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

— Richard Dawkins

Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.

— Vikas Swarup

I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.

— Leonard Susskind

As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.

— Sebastian Thrun

I lived in the States from 1996 till 2000. I attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1997. But I wasn't the most hard-working student. I rarely went to school. At that time, I seriously doubted that you could learn creativity in school. Music isn't something you can just learn from other people. Sometimes I regret missing classes.

— Psy

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

— Matthew Simpson

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

— William Butler Yeats

My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn't like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid.

— Nate Diaz

✗Opposing Perspectives

I found that, academically, it really didn't matter whether I had received a certain grade in a class; it didn't matter too much what schools I wanted to attend... What matters is one's drive, one's intelligence.

— Jon Huntsman, Sr.

I grew up in Philadelphia in a time where we took it for granted that we were supposed to be young and gifted and black. It was a culture of excellence - and all my friends were more talented than I was.

— Leslie Odom, Jr.