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Derek Bok Quotes

American - Lawyer | March 22, 1930 -

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.

Problems Enough Accomplish Write

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

Year University Professors Half Than

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.

School College Bright More Students

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.

College Think Teach Write Hire How

There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

Great Thinking Behavior Achieving

Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates.

Education Choices Development Lead

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.

Education Support Research American

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.

Life Learning Time Training Research

Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.

Teach Way Professors Favorite Taught

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.

Education Money Higher Education Year

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.

Quality Government Problems Overcome

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

Education Growth Higher Education

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