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Derek Bok
American
Lawyer
Born:
Mar 22
,
1930
College
Education
Important
Life
Think
Universities
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There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.
Derek Bok
Great
Behavior
Great Deal
Thinking
Moral
Moral Issues
About
Higher
Between
Deal
Issues
Difference
Achieving
Ethical
Standards
I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.
Derek Bok
Anxiety
Cause
Think
Worry
One Thing
Does
Protracted
Unhappiness
Thing
I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.
Derek Bok
Best
Judge
Will
Think
Society
Consequences
Ought
Students
Long-Term
Institution
Policies
Educational
Any
Estimate
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.
Derek Bok
Education
Money
Higher Education
Year
State
Appropriate
Out
Tell
Finding
Similar
Higher
Know
How
How Much
Dollars
Tests
Getting
Legislators
Interested
Us
Much
Naturally
Who
Billions
Billions Of Dollars
Each
Each Year
Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.
Derek Bok
Practice
Thinking
Too
Critical
Critical Thinking
Students
Develop
Instead
New
Learned
Because
Audiences
Still
Passive
Lecture
Falter
Questions
Efforts
Many
Challenging
Professors
Apply
Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.
Derek Bok
Education
Higher Education
Politicians
Economic
Higher
Economic Growth
Attention
Since
Economists
Revealed
How
How Much
Close
Close Attention
Contribute
Much
Paid
Ever
Growth
Universities
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.
Derek Bok
Attitude
Great
Superior
Our
Way
Say
Harvard
Embarrassment
Never
Know
Any
Done
Represent
Graduates
Who
Asserted
I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.
Derek Bok
Will
Become
Community
Humane
Caring
Say
Members
Restricting
Suspect
I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions.
Derek Bok
Research
Think
Other
Selective
Advantages
Mass
Institutions
Alternative
Yale
Does
Real
Hand
Subsequent
Any
Going
Jail
Means
Your
Show
Career
What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.
Derek Bok
Achievement
Game
College
Important
Say
Kind
Some
About
Highest
Academic
End
Up
Grades
Going
After
Mean
Means
Who
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.
Derek Bok
Happiness
First
Country
India
Adopt
Policy
Goal
Official
Tiny
China
China And India
Public
Little
Asia
Public Policy
Near
Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.
Derek Bok
Happy
People
Made
Greater
Inequality
Less
Europe
Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.
Derek Bok
Happiness
Education
Regret
Say
Indication
Direct
Educator
Effect
Most high governmental officials who speak of education policy seem to conceive of education in this light - as a way to ensure economic competitiveness and continued economic growth. I strongly disagree with this approach.
Derek Bok
Education
Speak
Disagree
Light
Approach
Way
Ensure
High
Seem
Strongly
Economic
Economic Growth
Conceive
Most
Policy
Continue
Officials
Who
Growth
Competitiveness
Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.
Derek Bok
Programs
Admission
Tend
Advantage
Early
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.
Derek Bok
School
College
Entering
Ability
More
Only
Students
Develop
Takes
Very
Than
Improves
Substantially
Them
Modest
Modestly
Helps
Bright
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.
Derek Bok
Life
Time
Learning
Writing
Training
Research
Spend
Books
Though
Enter
Entirely
More
Almost
Academic
Most
Devoted
Conducting
Than
Experiments
Far
Teaching
Who
Even
Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.
Derek Bok
Way
Favorite
Taught
Teach
Professors
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.
Derek Bok
Education
Higher Education
Increases
Relative
Dramatically
System
Embrace
Cost
Higher
Maintaining
Countries
Mass
Elite
Universities
Apart from finding a first job, college graduates seem to adapt more easily than those with only a high school degree as the economy evolves and labor-market needs change.
Derek Bok
Needs
Change
School
Job
Degree
College
First
Those
Easily
High
Finding
High School
Seem
More
Only
Economy
First Job
Than
Graduates
Apart
Adapt
What we are doing in educating students is trying to prepare them to live more fulfilling lives for the decades after they graduate. And trying to provide a better, richer, fairer, more decent society for the generations after.
Derek Bok
Better
Live
Society
More
Students
Generations
Fairer
Doing
Educating
Provide
Decades
Trying
Graduate
Decent
After
Them
Richer
Fulfilling
Prepare
Lives
Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life, and an institution should do what it can to make these years absorbing and enjoyable.
Derek Bok
Life
Future
Preparation
Colleges
Student
Absorb
Merely
Institution
Make
Occupy
Years
Offer
Should
Enjoyable
Four
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.
Derek Bok
Life
Time
Problems
College
Single
Relate
Later
Adequate
Inquiry
Emerge
More
Vast
Vast Majority
Student
Students
Recur
Over
Majority
Does
Method
Than
May
Experiences
Capacity
Grasp
Even
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.
Derek Bok
Education
Diversity
Higher Education
Important
Think
Enormous
Everything
Once
Define
Those
Higher
Students
Emphasize
Particular
Institutions
Call
Educate
Educational
Very
Roles
Different
Themselves
Many
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.
Derek Bok
Commitment
Strong
Opportunity
Action
Believe
Our
Respecting
Harvard
Must
Academic
Equal
Equal Opportunity
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Reflects
While
Standards
Fully
Program
University
For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.
Derek Bok
Life
Education
Knowledge
Problems
Will
College
Judgment
Liberal
Liberal Arts
Later
Ways
Relevant
Some
Web
Directly
Students
Almost
Study
Almost All
Occasions
Sciences
Graduate
May
Arts
Arts Education
Subtle
Gained
Create
Works
Enlighten
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