Carpe Quote by Ernest L. Boyer

Education is a seamless web: one level of learning relates to every other.

— Ernest L. Boyer

The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students in their…

— Ernest L. Boyer

Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their private interests,…

— Ernest L. Boyer

Book CoverTo have people who are well informed but not constrained by conscience is conceivably, the most dangerous outcome of education possible. Indeed it…

— Ernest L. Boyer

In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers that we…

— Ernest L. Boyer

To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.

— Ernest L. Boyer

An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.

— Ernest L. Boyer

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

— Ernest L. Boyer

Based upon the pictures, I concluded that about 60 percent of all college classes in the United States are held outside, underneath a tree,…

— Ernest L. Boyer

I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.

— Ernest L. Boyer

Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And wouldn't it be great…

— Ernest L. Boyer

To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that…

— Ernest L. Boyer