The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students in…

- Ernest L. Boyer

Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.

- Ernest L. Boyer

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

- Ernest L. Boyer

Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.

- Ernest L. Boyer

Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their pri…

- Ernest L. Boyer

The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described as …

- Ernest L. Boyer

Book CoverTo have people who are well informed but not constrained by conscience is conceivably, the most dangerous outcome of education possible. In…

- Ernest L. Boyer

In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn about the world around t…

- Ernest L. Boyer

Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration... what we need in education is a learning climate…

- Ernest L. Boyer