Ernest L Boyer Quotes

#1. It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must learn how to spot a stereotype, isolate a social cliche, and distinguish facts from propaganda, analysis from banter and important news from coverage.

Ernest L. Boyer

#2. To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that have been made. Equity and excellence cannot be divided.

Ernest L. Boyer

#3. When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.

M.F.K. Fisher

#4. I walk through Dreamland, searching for my knight in shining armor, who turned out to be more like a dickhead wrapped in tinfoil.

Alexis Noelle

#5. To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.

Ernest L. Boyer

#6. Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.

Ernest L. Boyer

#7. In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn about the world around them, develop a sense of civic and social responsibility, and discover how they can contribute to the common good?

Ernest L. Boyer

#8. Based upon the pictures, I concluded that about 60 percent of all college classes in the United States are held outside, underneath a tree, usually by a gently flowing stream.

Ernest L. Boyer

#9. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

Dave Brubeck

#10. I'm not consumed with political machinations.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#11. 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.

Ernest L. Boyer

#12. Favouring employment versus the financial markets is a decent policy; certainly not beneficial for the currency or the gilt market, but beneficial for the people.

Bill Gross

#13. A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Ernest L. Boyer

#14. Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration ... what we need in education is a learning climate in which students work together. In such an atmosphere, truth emerges as authentic insights are conscientiously exchanged.

Ernest L. Boyer

#15. When the peace in not inside, we seek it outside. When the peace is not outside, we turn inside. Whether there is internal peace or an internal storm, it spirals outward to everyone you see and everything you touch.

Franklin Gillette

#16. You've been doing something bad since the moment you met me, lass.

Karen Marie Moning

#17. The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask questions. We cannot ask, 'Who am I? Who are you? Why?

Madeleine L'Engle

#18. The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described as a community of scholars.

Ernest L. Boyer

#19. My movie career - if such a thing even exists - is laughable.

Elaine Stritch

#20. Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And wouldn't it be great if every child heard good speech and received thoughtful answers to their questions instead of 'be quiet' or 'go to bed'?

Ernest L. Boyer

#21. Education is a seamless web: one level of learning relates to every other.

Ernest L. Boyer

#22. Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be trusted.

Frederick Lenz

#23. I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.

Ernest L. Boyer

#24. 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.

Ernest L. Boyer

#25. As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.

Ernest L. Boyer

#26. My dreams were but a means of forgetting, they were the branches tied to the galloping horses of our days, the emptying of the garbage so that tomorrow - assuming there would be a tomorrow - could be filled up with new life. You die, you forget, you wake up knew.

Aleksandar Hemon

#27. The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students in their determination to be useful, self-sufficient, and productive.

Ernest L. Boyer

#28. Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

Ernest L. Boyer

#29. When all is said and done we simply must make teaching in this country an honorable profession-since it's in the classrooms of America where the battle for excellence, ultimately, will be won or lost.

Ernest L. Boyer

#30. Savage Sam Tarly, whose sword, Heartsbane, was said to be red from hilt to point after the dozens of Dornishmen he cut down in the course of the Vulture Hunt, as the chase after the Vulture King became known.

George R R Martin

#31. Nothing is more excruciating than waiting for the jury's verdict. Except, perhaps, hearing the jury's verdict.

Richard Paul Evans

#32. Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.

Ernest L. Boyer