Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
