Derek Bok Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

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  Teaching, College, Support

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• Los recién doctorados suelen enseñar como lo hacían sus profesores favoritos.

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  Manera, Enseñó, Profesores

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• Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.

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  War, Teaching, Creating

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• La formación doctoral se dedica casi por completo a aprender a investigar, aunque la mayoría de los doctores que se incorporan a la vida académica pasan mucho más tiempo enseñando que realizando experimentos o escribiendo libros.

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  Libro, Enseñanza, Escritura

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• If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

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  Effort, Quality, Action

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

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  University Professors, Years, Half

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• 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.

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  College, Thinking, Skills

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• I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.

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  Thinking, White, Minorities

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• I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

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  Attitude, Done, Way

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• 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.

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  Years, Dollars, Tests

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• Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.

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  Program, Advantage, Admission

  "Harvard Ends Early Admission Program, Deems It Unfair to Poor, Minority Students". www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2006.

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