Derek Bok Quotes

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

I have seen schools across the country working long and hard to embed a commitment to the unlimited development of every student into their cultures. The result, in terms of motivated learners and test scores, often is spectacular.

You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

Education is not about thinning the herd. Education is about helping every student succeed.

We must provide an improved early education system so that all students have the opportunity to learn and reach their full potential.

Usually you have a feel for what a kid's abilities are by the end of their sophomore year.

The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

The great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The same should be true of college. A professor’s job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

You can force students to learn, to a certain extent, but students aren't happy and employers aren't happy.

All students can learn.

Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.

The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.

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.

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

The level of our educational development is high and serves as a strong basis for our future progress.

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.