Quotes About Anti-elitism

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

Unfortunately, the reach of resentful anti-elitism is not limited to bureaucratic documents and ed-school screeds, which (at least it could be argued) are destined to repose unread and ignored.'; The same animosity has made inroads into the training of supposed scientific professionals.

Both leftists and conservatives have, in their different ways, contributed to a slack public educational system, which is particularly feeble when it comes to science. Neither faction is likely to accept serious reform gracefully, the left because of its dogmatic anti-elitism, the right because of its own version of anti-elitism as well as its resistance to public expenditure and its fervent preference for "localism" in all things.