Derek Bok Quotes

Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught by untrained graduate students and underpaid adjunct teachers.

Derek Bok

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 22, 1930

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It was important to me and, I think, important to my parents that I be on my own and figure things out on my own and kind of forge my own path, and I'm really grateful for that.

Anderson Cooper

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I attended university because I have always felt that education is freedom and power.

Amanda Warren

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Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.

Steven Pinker

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A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

Lois Wyse

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Halloween is an opportunity to be really creative.

Judy Gold

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I'm not going to rule out running for a second term. But, I think you have to be psychologically prepared to walk away from the job after four years. It's the only way that you cannot be influenced by those special interests.

Dick Murphy

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I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

Christopher Hitchens

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In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.

Christiane Amanpour

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I tell the guys all the time, 'if you have a good puncher, all the way in or all the way out.' Don't stay there and box.

Chuck Liddell

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I never talk about my next project.

Alice Walker

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There are not many heavyweight fighters to come by, so having so many sparring partners is a big luxury a lot of other fighters don't have.

Alistair Overeem

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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Plato

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