Derek Bok Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.

  Derek Bok

  Book, Teaching, Writing

• I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.

  Derek Bok

  Writing, College, Thinking

• Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers... reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems.

  Derek Bok

  Writing, College, Benefits

  Derek Bok (2009). “Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More”, p.8, Princeton University Press

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