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College Quotes by Derek Bok
- 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.
- Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking…
- Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to…
- Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate…
- Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as…
- Apart from finding a first job, college graduates seem to adapt more easily than those with only a high school degree as the economy evolves…
- The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the…
- For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal…
- The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students and…
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- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
- I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law. — Michele Bachmann
- I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a… — Amy Adams
- I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior year was… — Alec Baldwin
- If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher. — Syd Barrett
- I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we… — Dave Barry
- When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale… — Angela Bassett
- When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book… — Mario Batali
- When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do… — Alexander Graham Bell
- To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be,… — Dirk Benedict
- I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger… — Justin Bieber
- Kids seem to get me when I play colleges - they like it because I go after them. They'll come up after… — Lewis Black