Derek Bok Quotes

Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.

Derek Bok

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• It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Great
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• With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • School
  • Help
  • High

• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Work
  • Family
  • Fun

• I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.

  

  Banks
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• The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Past

• One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Dream
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• What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Believe
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  • Strength

• Effective use of technology is important to deliver healthcare. By leveraging technology, you can bring down lack of access and cost of healthcare.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Important
  • Technology
  • Down

• I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Morning

• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • School
  • Education

• In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Education
  • Materialism

• I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Important
  • Long
  • Together

• A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Relationship
  • Trust
  • Healthy

• My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing. Until I'm an established name all over the world, my speech won't be more important than my music.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • World
  • Music
  • Important

• As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Important
  • Guy
  • Dream

• We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Life
  • Money
  • Home

• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Education
  • Reading
  • Worth

• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• When I went to do "Carson" that night, they wanted us to do two songs, but we were a brand new band. "Conga" hadn't even hit the top 10 yet. They go, "Do you think you could do something that people know, because we want you to do a second song, but not two originals, because we don't want to lose the audience, just in case."

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Song

• I don't think you ever love anything as passionately as you do when you're a teen. You remember the books you read as a young person your whole life. I feel so lucky to write for young adults.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Teen

• It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

  

  Ovid
  • Believe
  • U.S.
  • Let Us

• I certainly often go to a movie and don't remember exactly what the trailer had in it, except that it looked cool.

  

  Marti Noxon
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Cool

• Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there's a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened.

  

  Eugene Chadbourne
  • Home
  • Dog
  • Imagine

• Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.

  

  Derek Bok
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Education