Derek Bok Quotes

For the educational establishment... test scores are treated as indications of the extent to which the required ground covering has been done. ...as educationally significant. However, while they may be prognostic of a child's ability to get through school... they do not provide us with an appraisal of the child's progress in the long process of becoming a generally educated human being -- the advance made toward a more skillful, thoughtful, and cultivated mind.

When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where ... the point is to acquire the skills not of positive thinking but of critical thinking.

Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates.

By the time I got to George Washington University, I had been a straight-A student in high school.

Nobody goes to college and learns anything.

Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.

Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.

But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.

My parents weren't stereotypical and pressuring me to go to college. They mentioned it a lot and constantly, but it wasn't a do or die thing, like, 'You have to do this or you're done.'

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

Schooling is so important.

The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to college. Why? Because rich people's kids go to college. And if that's good enough for them, it's good enough for my kids. Because you know what? College graduates don't tend to go to jail as frequently as nongraduates.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

No one in my family had ever even gone to college.

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.

For whatever reason, college was just not a huge focus for me. I wasn't planning ahead. I just didn't think about it too much.

Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their 'critical thinking.'

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.