Based upon the pictures, I concluded that about 60 percent of all college classes in the United States are held outside, underneath a tree, usually by a gently flowing stream.

Based upon the pictures, I concluded that about 60 percent of all college classes in the United States are held outside, underneath a tree, usually by a gently flowing stream.

To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that have been made. Equity and excellence cannot be divided.

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

Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their private interests, gain a more integrative view of knowledge, and relate their learning to the realities of life.

As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.

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.