Education Quote by Derek Bok Download Open image “Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.” — Derek Bok ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Professors Taught Teach Teachers Way
Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
I feel that students always learn more from each other than they do from their professor. They learn by doing and not by trying… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Although the universe is under no obligation to make sense, students in pursuit of a Ph. D. are. — Robert Kirshner Copy Share Image
Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk. — Donald Sadoway Copy Share Image
My mother ended up getting a Ph.D. of her own, in chemistry, and eventually became a tenured professor. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I feel that very strongly: having been an academic, having been tempted by the invitation to stay on to become a Ph.D., a professor,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Teach First is uniquely placed to help universities broaden the social background of their student intake. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
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. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
“surveys show that over 90 percent of professors believe that their teaching is above average,” — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
An educated man must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance for the… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed,… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
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… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
