Clark Kerr Quotes

United States, Economist
May 17, 1911 – December, 1, 2003.

Clark Kerr (May 17, 1911 – December 1, 2003) was an American professor of economics and academic administrator. He was the first chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, and twelfth president of the University of California.

Also known as Professor

The purpose of the university is to make students safe for ideas - not ideas safe for students.

Clark Kerr
- Purpose
- Ideas
- Students
If you are bored with Berkeley and San Francisco, you are bored with life.

Clark Kerr
- Life
- Bored
- San Francisco

The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.

Clark Kerr
He particularly liked about making students safe for ideas, not ideas safe for students.

Clark Kerr
- Ideas
- Students
- Safe
A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.

Clark Kerr
- Balance
- Confused
- German
The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.

Clark Kerr
The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

Clark Kerr
I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

Clark Kerr
- Sex