Quotes from Ernest L. Boyer

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

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

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

An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.

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

Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication.

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.

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

Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication.

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.

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

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