A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

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

Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.

Book CoverTo have people who are well informed but not constrained by conscience is conceivably, the most dangerous outcome of education possible. Indeed it could be argued that ignorance is better than unguided intelligence, for the most dangerous people are those who have knowledge without a moral framework.

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

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.

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.