Clark Kerr Quotes

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

  Clark Kerr

  Entrepreneur, Together, Common

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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 Kerr

  Education, Sex, Learning

  Quoted in Time, 17 Nov. 1958

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

  Clark Kerr

  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 status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

  Clark Kerr

  Idaho, Status Quo, Solutions

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

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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 Kerr

  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.

  Clark Kerr

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

  Clark Kerr

  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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