Ernest L. Boyer

Education is a seamless web: one level of learning relates to every other.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— Ernest L. Boyer

To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.

— 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.

— Ernest L. Boyer

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

— 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…

— Ernest L. Boyer

I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Ernest L. Boyer

It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our…

— Ernest L. Boyer

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

— Ernest L. Boyer

As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must…

— Ernest L. Boyer

Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of…

— Ernest L. Boyer

Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.

— Ernest L. Boyer

When all is said and done we simply must make teaching in this country an honorable profession-since it's in the classrooms of…

— Ernest L. Boyer

We hear a lot of talk these days about teaching values in higher education. Frankly, I am not sure this can be…

— Ernest L. Boyer

In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn…

— Ernest L. Boyer