To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children. — 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 that we give to full professors, this one act alone would revitalize the nation's schools. — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
Education is a seamless web: one level of learning relates to every other. — 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 in their… — 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 private interests,… — 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. Indeed it… — 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 that we… — 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
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 Image
A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130. — 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 a tree,… — 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
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 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 be great… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
