Clark Kerr quotes
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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.”
-- Clark KerrSource : Quoted in Time, 17 Nov. 1958
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“The purpose of the university is to make students safe for ideas - not ideas safe for students.”
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“If you are bored with Berkeley, you are bored with life.”
-- Clark KerrSource : "The Gold and the Blue, Volume One: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967, Academic Triumphs".
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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.”
-- Clark KerrSource : Clark Kerr (2001). “The Uses of the University”, p.14, Harvard University Press
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“The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.”
-- Clark KerrSource : Clark Kerr (2001). “The Uses of the University”, p.134, Harvard University Press
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“The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.”
-- Clark KerrSource : 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 university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.”
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“He particularly liked about making students safe for ideas, not ideas safe for students.”
-- Clark KerrSource : "The Gold and the Blue, Volume One: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967, Academic Triumphs".
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