Education is a seamless web: one level of learning relates to every other. — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130. — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit. — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children. — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global. — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing. — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And wouldn't it… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
When all is said and done we simply must make teaching in this country an honorable profession-since it's in the classrooms of… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
Based upon the pictures, I concluded that about 60 percent of all college classes in the United States are held outside, underneath… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
We hear a lot of talk these days about teaching values in higher education. Frankly, I am not sure this can be… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
Book CoverTo have people who are well informed but not constrained by conscience is conceivably, the most dangerous outcome of education possible.… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration... what we need in education is a learning climate… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
Education is a seamless web: one level of learning relates to every other. — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share
The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students in their… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share
Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their private interests,… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share
Book CoverTo have people who are well informed but not constrained by conscience is conceivably, the most dangerous outcome of education possible. Indeed it… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share
In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers that we… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share
To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children. — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share
An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time. — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share
Based upon the pictures, I concluded that about 60 percent of all college classes in the United States are held outside, underneath a tree,… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share
I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global. — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share
Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world. — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share
Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And wouldn't it be great… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share
To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share
Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration... what we need in education is a learning climate in which… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share
The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share
