Jose Antonio Bowen Quotes

#1. Most faculty spend a lot of time thinking about content and what to cover, but content delivery is not the core strength of a university, just as it is not for newspapers. The core strength of a university is integration.

Jose Antonio Bowen

#2. The very definition of what it means to be alone has changed. To be physically alone is still relatively easy, but many of us struggle daily to turn off e-mail, computers, or cell phones... Our students...find requests not to text during these activities strange, annoying, and downright silly.

Jose Antonio Bowen

#3. Time for reflection and interaction is a casualty of the digital age, and one of the primary goals of higher education should be to reclaim this time.

Jose Antonio Bowen

#4. If teaching is largely about faculty-student interaction, then we have to recognize that human interaction is changing.

Jose Antonio Bowen

#5. The problem of teaching, therefore, is getting not the facts but the context from my brain to yours.

Jose Antonio Bowen

#6. Life has always been an open-book exam

Jose Antonio Bowen

#7. Are you fully convinced that what is familiar to you is really the better way?

Jose Antonio Bowen