Derek Bok Quotes

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.

I believe primary and secondary education is the bedrock of any sustainable society.

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

The value of a good education has never left me.

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.

I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, 'What's the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting?' It didn't make sense to me anymore. It's not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

Schooling is so important.

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.

Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view.

I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

I knew school was stupid since the fifth grade.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.

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.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.