Choices Quote by Derek Bok

The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.

— Napoleon Hill

Comprehensive schools, as too few understand, have never been designed to improve education.

— Peter Hitchens

The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.

— Albert Einstein

In many cases students are never exposed to competing ideas within their families, churches, or Christian schools, and as a result they go out…

— Nancy Pearcey

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

— Peter Drucker

I think at a place like Harvard, our experience, I was involved with, at various stages, in trying to implement a new general education…

— Louis Menand

Getting faculties to come to a consensus about something that they've never really thought about or had to worry about in their careers before…

— Louis Menand

There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

— Derrick Jensen

Nobody goes to college and learns anything.

— Nithya Menen

“In its failure to value differences in the way people learn, the educational process often suppresses intuition, creativity, and your sense of identity.”

— Laurie Nadel