The University has a moral obligation to provide equal opportunities to women, minority persons and all other groups who work or seek to work at Harvard. Derek Bok Read Quote
Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes. Derek Bok Read Quote
Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories. Derek Bok Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Derek Bok Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education. Derek Bok Read Quote
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system. Derek Bok Read Quote
