Derek Bok

“Colleges should not be judged by the test scores of their incoming students, but by the quality of the students they graduate.”

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

“There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.”

“The university's danger is not that it doesn't have the answers, but that it doesn't ask the right questions.”

“What is honored in a country is cultivated there.”

“The constantly recurring problem of civilization is to be rescued from its saviors.”

“By concentrating on what is most important, you can make almost any job seem exciting.”

“Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.”

“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”

“Whatever the flaws of the universities, they are the only institutions in the Western world that have been responsible for the preservation of a body of knowledge.”

“The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.”