Clark Kerr Quotes

• If you are bored with Berkeley and San Francisco, you are bored with life.

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  Bored   Berkeley   Ifs  

  "The Gold and the Blue, Volume One: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967, Academic Triumphs".

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• 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.

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  Education   Sex   Learning  

  Quoted in Time, 17 Nov. 1958

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• 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.

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  Confused   Balance   Sake  

  Clark Kerr (2001). “The Uses of the University”, p.14, Harvard University Press

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• The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.

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  United States   World   Higher Education  

  Clark Kerr, Marian L. Gade, Maureen Kawaoka (1994). “Troubled Times for American Higher Education: The 1990s and Beyond”, p.182, SUNY Press

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• The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

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  Idaho   Status Quo   Solutions  

  Clark Kerr (2001). “The Uses of the University”, p.134, Harvard University Press

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• He particularly liked about making students safe for ideas, not ideas safe for students.

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  College   Ideas   Purpose  

  "The Gold and the Blue, Volume One: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967, Academic Triumphs".

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• The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.

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  Entrepreneur   Together   Common  

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