Derek Bok Quotes

By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD.

Every summer, I regret that I didn't become a college teacher. Such a sweet life! With all that vacation time! You'll never get me to believe that being a tenured professor at a good college is anything but Heaven on earth.

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

I finished my Ph.D. at Berkeley in November 1987 and took a position as an independent fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in January 1988.

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.

Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.

In some ways I've gone to Cash and Carter graduate school.

In 1996, I received a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Southern California.

I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

As an assistant in the polytechnic department, I was able to finance new studies and got my Physics Masters Degree in 1958 and my Ph.D. in 1959.

When I'm done playing basketball, I want do something bigger. I'm working on my doctorate right now at Barry University in Florida.

I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.

I divide my time equally between teaching and research.

I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people.

My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.

For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.

I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue to get a deferment, you had to go to graduate school.

I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.

But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affairs.

For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.