Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American economist Clark Kerr.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Clark Kerr was an American professor of economics and academic administrator. He was the first chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, and twelfth president of the University of California.
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.
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.
The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.
The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.
He particularly liked about making students safe for ideas, not ideas safe for students.
If you are bored with Berkeley and San Francisco, you are bored with life.
The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.