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Derek Bok


American
March 22, 1930
Lawyer
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Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.


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Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.


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Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.


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There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.
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Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.
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What we are doing in educating students is trying to prepare them to live more fulfilling lives for the decades after they graduate. And trying to provide a better, richer, fairer, more decent society for the generations after.
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Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.
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For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.
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