Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
“surveys show that over 90 percent of professors believe that their teaching is above average,” — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
An educated man must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance for the… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed,… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
