Derek Bok Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Derek Bok quotes and sayings page 3 (lawyer). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 47 we have.
“I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.”
“Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.”
“I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.”
“I believe that Harvard can have, and must have, a strong affirmative action program that reflects our commitment to equal opportunity while fully respecting the academic standards of the University.”
“The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students and helps them develop only modestly.”
“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.”
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