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" Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year. "
Derek Bok
Half
Professors
University
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" There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money. "
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Money
Year
Education
" 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 arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life. "
Derek Bok
Knowledge
College
Life
" I think it's very important to emphasize that there are many, many different educational institutions in what we call higher education, and they educate an enormous diversity of students. I think all of those institutions have to define particular roles for themselves; they can't do everything at once. "
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Important
Think
Education
" There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot. "
Derek Bok
Afford
Far
Much
" The vast majority of students probably emerge from college with an adequate grasp of no more than a single method of inquiry. Even this capacity may erode over time if it does not relate to experiences and problems that recur in the student's later life. "
Derek Bok
Student
Life
College
" 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 write well enough to satisfy their employers... reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems. "
Derek Bok
Accomplish
Enough
Reason
" Again and again, universities have put a low priority on the very programs and initiatives that are needed most to increase productivity and competitiveness, improve the quality of government, and overcome the problems of illiteracy, miseducation, and unemployment. "
Derek Bok
Quality
Government
Overcome
" I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions. "
Derek Bok
Real
Research
Career
" Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education. "
Derek Bok
Education
Growth
Higher Education
" If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it. "
Derek Bok
Action
Time
Quality
" Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively. "
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Position
Where
Very
" Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities. "
Derek Bok
Education
Research
American
" 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 to provide a better, richer, fairer, more decent society for the generations after. "
Derek Bok
Live
Society
Trying
" What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end. "
Derek Bok
Grades
Achievement
College
" Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile. "
Derek Bok
Goal
Important
College
" There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior. "
Derek Bok
Behavior
Thinking
Achieving
" The University has a moral obligation to provide equal opportunities to women, minority persons and all other groups who work or seek to work at Harvard. "
Derek Bok
Equal
Work
Women
" 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 than they do conducting experiments or writing books. "
Derek Bok
Training
Writing
Time
" Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life, and an institution should do what it can to make these years absorbing and enjoyable. "
Derek Bok
Four
Student
Preparation
" In 1968, the situation at Harvard was not one of which we can be proud. In that year, the proportion of minority persons in salary and wage positions was approximately 3 per cent. Virtually no minority workers were employed on Harvard construction projects. "
Derek Bok
Proud
Situation
Construction
" Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes. "
Derek Bok
Start
Win
Football
" Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy. "
Derek Bok
Happy
Inequality
Less
" I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say. "
Derek Bok
Community
Will
Become
" 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 the society will be. "
Derek Bok
Best
Society
Judge
" The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India. "
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India
Country
Goal
" The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions. "
Derek Bok
Oldest
Professions
Youngest
" Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught. "
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Professors
Taught
Teach
" Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness. "
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Say
Education
Happiness
" As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system. "
Derek Bok
Education
Embrace
Higher Education
" Most high governmental officials who speak of education policy seem to conceive of education in this light - as a way to ensure economic competitiveness and continued economic growth. I strongly disagree with this approach. "
Derek Bok
Growth
Speak
Light