Derek Bok Quotes
- If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
- Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.
- 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 than…
- Again and again, universities have put a low priority on the very programs and initiatives that are needed most to increase productivity and competitiveness, improve…
- 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 ambiguity…
- I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.
- I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and…
- Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.
- There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.
- The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.
- Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.
- Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.
- Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.
- Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.
- Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.
- 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.
- I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.
- I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.
- The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and…
- There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.