"In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn about the world around them, develop a sense of civic and social responsibility, and discover how they can contribute to the common good?"

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Source : Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

Ernest L. Boyer

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“History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.”
“In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.”
“As Latter-day Saints, we need not look like the world. We need not entertain like the world. Our personal habits should be different. Our recreation should be different. Our concern for family will be different. As we establish this distinctiveness firmly in our life's pattern, the blessings of heaven await to assist us.”
“Optimism, that is healthy in its application, will inevitably result in better physical and emotional health.”
“No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.”
“I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the tonic, as a need for familiar chords: let us be frank and say "for the triad"; and I believe I have good reason to say that just so long as a certain kind of music contains enough such triads, it causes no offence, even if in other ways it most violently clashes with the sacred laws of tonality.”

Source : "Schoenberg: A Critical Biography". Book by Willi Reich, p. 34, 1971.
“The education situation which most effectively promotes significant learning is one in which (1) threat to the self of the learner is reduced to a minimum and (2) differential perception of the field of experience is facilitated”
“Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.”

Source : Interview with Cindy Lynn Speer and Wiley Saichek, www.bookreporter.com. October 8, 2004.

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