We think we can transform the stranger, without cost or sacrifice, into the familiar and the known, and we can’t. - Malcolm Gladwell

But we need to remember that our definition of what is right is, as often as not, simply the way that people in positions of privilege close the door on those on the outside.

... it is possible to emerge from even the darkest hell healed and restored.

The phenomenon of relative deprivation applied to education is called — appropriately enough — the “Big Fish–Little Pond Effect.” The more elite an educational institution is, the worse students feel about their own academic abilities.