Derek Bok Quotes

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.

You always need to be curious and study.

I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.

I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.

College education is the great Filipino dream. But in a world of rapid technological change, getting a job or keeping it depends as much on how well one reasons as how well one uses his hands.

Education is very important, and I understand that.

There's a lot to be said for an American-style liberal-arts education, which prevents young people from professionalizing right away.

I mean, my training at Oberlin has been absolutely valuable.

Always make the choice to learn. What Princeton taught me was whatever mess you are studying, pull a thread with great persistence 'til you have clarity of thought. Princeton taught me how to solve a problem. How to think - that's what we pull out of this place.

My Grinnell education didn't prepare me directly for the work that I'm doing, but it did give me the tools that I needed to focus my curiosity.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

I love to learn; I really do. We'd study something in class, and I'd take it outside of class and become, like, obsessive and just research everything.

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

While I appreciated the educational advantages I enjoyed in the school and was proud of what I could show in mental culture, I had an earnest desire for something more than a mere business education... I desired to study for a profession, and this prompted me to leave my native state.

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

Always educate yourself.

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.

Not only that - college doesn't particularly qualify you for the outside world. he world is changing so fast, and college is not. It should strive to be more in tune with the world.

A lot of the education that I got at Michigan State I still use to this very day.