Ernest L. Boyer Quotes

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• When all is said and done we simply must make teaching in this country an honorable profession-since it's in the classrooms of America where the…
• Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.
• 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…
• 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 determination…
• We hear a lot of talk these days about teaching values in higher education. Frankly, I am not sure this can be accomplished through a…
• Based upon the pictures, I concluded that about 60 percent of all college classes in the United States are held outside, underneath a tree, usually…
• I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.
• In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn about the world…
• 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 if…
• To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.
• Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.
• The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described…
• 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, gain…
• To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that have…
• As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.
• Education is a seamless web: one level of learning relates to every other.
• Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of civilization can be…
• It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must learn…
• A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.
• Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration... what we need in education is a learning climate in which students…

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