When all is said and done we simply must make teaching in this country an honorable profession-since it's in the classrooms of America where the battle for excellence, ultimately, will be won or lost.

When all is said and done we simply must make teaching in this country an honorable profession-since it's in the classrooms of America where the battle for excellence, ultimately, will be won or lost.

Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.

An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.

I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.

Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration... what we need in education is a learning climate in which students work together. In such an atmosphere, truth emerges as authentic insights are conscientiously exchanged.

The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described as a community of scholars.