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title: "2 Carpe Quotes By Ernest L. Boyer"
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> [Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-l-boyer/music-gives-us-a-language-that-cuts-across-the-disciplines-helps-us/)

[Ernest L. Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-l-boyer/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35e/ernest-l-boyer-24978_carpe_music-gives-us-a-language-that-cuts-acro_947514.png)

> [Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration... what we need in education is a learning climate in which students work together. In such an atmosphere, truth emerges as authentic insights are conscientiously exchanged.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-l-boyer/our-most-consequential-human-problems-will-be-resolved-not-through/)

[Ernest L. Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-l-boyer/)

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## Other authors on Carpe

## More by Ernest L. Boyer

> [Education is a seamless web: one level of learning relates to every other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-l-boyer/education-is-a-seamless-web-one-level-of-learning-relates-to-every/)

[Ernest L. Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-l-boyer/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-l-boyer/the-assumption-of-all-education-is-that-learning-will-be-directed/)

[Ernest L. Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-l-boyer/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-l-boyer/education-must-prepare-students-to-be-independent-self-reliant-human/)

[Ernest L. Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-l-boyer/)

> [Book CoverTo have people who are well informed but not constrained by conscience is conceivably, the most dangerous outcome of education possible. Indeed it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-l-boyer/book-coverto-have-people-who-are-well-informed-but-not-constrained-by/)

[Ernest L. Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-l-boyer/)

> [In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers that we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-l-boyer/in-the-end-excellence-in-education-means-excellence-in-teaching-and/)

[Ernest L. Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-l-boyer/)

> [To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-l-boyer/to-put-it-simply-school-readiness-means-creating-in-this-country-a/)

[Ernest L. Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-l-boyer/)

> [An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-l-boyer/an-incompetent-teacher-is-even-worse-than-an-incompetent-surgeon/)

[Ernest L. Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-l-boyer/)

> [A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-l-boyer/a-poor-surgeon-hurts-one-person-at-a-time-a-poor-teacher-hurts-130/)

[Ernest L. Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-l-boyer/)

> [Based upon the pictures, I concluded that about 60 percent of all college classes in the United States are held outside, underneath a tree,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-l-boyer/based-upon-the-pictures-i-concluded-that-about-60-percent-of-all/)

[Ernest L. Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-l-boyer/)

> [I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-l-boyer/i-am-suggesting-that-quality-in-undergraduate-education-means-giving/)

[Ernest L. Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-l-boyer/)

> [Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-l-boyer/music-gives-us-a-language-that-cuts-across-the-disciplines-helps-us/)

[Ernest L. Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-l-boyer/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-l-boyer/wouldn-t-it-be-wonderful-if-every-home-had-good-books-instead-of/)

[Ernest L. Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-l-boyer/)

> [To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-l-boyer/to-push-for-excellence-today-without-continuing-to-push-for-access/)

[Ernest L. Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-l-boyer/)

> [Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration... what we need in education is a learning climate in which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-l-boyer/our-most-consequential-human-problems-will-be-resolved-not-through/)

[Ernest L. Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-l-boyer/)

> [The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-l-boyer/the-connectedness-of-things-is-what-the-great-university-is-all-about/)

[Ernest L. Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-l-boyer/)

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