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Students Quotes by Derek Bok
- I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.
- Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they…
- 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…
- I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for…
- 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…
- What we are doing in educating students is trying to prepare them to live more fulfilling lives for the decades after they graduate. And trying…
- 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…
- Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught…
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- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting… — Bill Gates
- NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.… — Neil Armstrong
- I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — Margaret Atwood
- The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work… — Eli Broad
- To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you,… — George W. Bush
- Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores… — Thad Cochran
- It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and… — Alfred North Whitehead