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Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.
- Derek Bok
#American
#Education
#Research
#Support
Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.
- Derek Bok
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#Happiness
#Regret
#Say
The University has a moral obligation to provide equal opportunities to women, minority persons and all other groups who work or seek to work at Harvard.
- Derek Bok
#Equal
#Minority
#Moral
#Women
#Work
What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.
- Derek Bok
#Achievement
#Game
#Grades
#Important
#Up
Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.
- Derek Bok
#Half
#Professors
#Than
#University
#Year
I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions.
- Derek Bok
#Career
#Jail
#Real
#Research
#Show
Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.
- Derek Bok
#New
#Practice
#Questions
#Thinking
Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.
- Derek Bok
#Ability
#Education
#Growth
#Relationship
The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.
- Derek Bok
#Arts
#Oldest
#Professions
#Youngest
I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.
- Derek Bok
#Attitude
#Great
#Know
#Never
#Way
Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.
- Derek Bok
#Creating
#Good
#Interesting
#Really
#War
Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.
- Derek Bok
#Economic Growth
#Education
#Growth
#Paid
There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.
- Derek Bok
#Behavior
#Difference
#Great
#Thinking
In 1968, the situation at Harvard was not one of which we can be proud. In that year, the proportion of minority persons in salary and wage positions was approximately 3 per cent. Virtually no minority workers were employed on Harvard construction projects.
- Derek Bok
#Construction
#Proud
#Salary
#Situation
The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.
- Derek Bok
#Education
#Facts
#Knowledge
#Purpose
There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.
- Derek Bok
#Cannot
#Far
#Law
#Little
#Too Much
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