17 Quotes by Ernest L. Boyer

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.