"I suspect that no community will become humane……" — Derek Bok
"I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say."
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44 Quotes by Derek Bok
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- 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…
- Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend…
- Again and again, universities have put a low priority on the very programs and initiatives that are needed most to…
- An educated man must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of…
- I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so…
- Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.
- There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.
- The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.
- Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.
- Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.
- Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.