Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. … - Derek Bok

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When I was a kid, I thought history was the most boring subject of all. I shouldn't blame my teachers; I should blame me, but I'll blame them.

Derek Bok

Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers. . . reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems.

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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.

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I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.

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As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

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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.

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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.

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