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Education Quotes by Derek Bok
- 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.
- There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher…
- 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…
- Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of…
- If you think the cost of education is high, think about ignorance.
- Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.
- 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…
- As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.
- 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…
- Most high governmental officials who speak of education policy seem to conceive of education in this light - as a way to ensure economic competitiveness…
More Education Quotes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe