Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging student…

- Derek Bok

An educated man must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolera…

- Derek Bok

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

- Derek Bok

I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their s…

- Derek Bok

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.

- Derek Bok

I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.

- Derek Bok

Again and again, universities have put a low priority on the very programs and initiatives that are needed most to increase productivity and competit…

- Derek Bok

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.

- Derek Bok

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, general…

- Derek Bok