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Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.

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I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

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I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.

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The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

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The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students and helps them develop only modestly.

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Again and again, universities have put a low priority on the very programs and initiatives that are needed most to increase productivity and competitiveness, improve the quality of government, and overcome the problems of illiteracy, miseducation, and unemployment.

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The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

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I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions.

~Derek Bok

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I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.

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What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.

~Derek Bok

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Lawyer

Born: March 22nd, 1930

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