Clark Kerr famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.
-- Clark Kerr

#Education #Sex #Learning
The purpose of the university is to make students safe for ideas - not ideas safe for students.
-- Clark Kerr

#College #Ideas #Purpose
If you are bored with Berkeley, you are bored with life.
-- Clark Kerr

#Bored #Berkeley
A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.
-- Clark Kerr

#Confused #Balance #Sake
The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.
-- Clark Kerr

#Status Quo #Solutions
The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.
-- Clark Kerr

#United States #World #Higher Education
The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.
-- Clark Kerr

#Entrepreneur #Together #Common
He particularly liked about making students safe for ideas, not ideas safe for students.
-- Clark Kerr

#College #Ideas #Purpose

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.
The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.
Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.
We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.
Screw guilt -- I could have sex with 10 men and it wouldn't bother me. I'm an atheist!
I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains.
Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

Clark Kerr famous quotes

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