Ernest L. Boyer Quotes
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An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.
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Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.
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Education is a seamless web: one level of learning relates to every other.
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To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.
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A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.
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Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.
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Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing
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I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.
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Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their private interests, gain a more integrative view of knowledge, and relate their learning to the realities of life.
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In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers that we give to full professors, this one act alone would revitalize the nation's schools.