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The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.

The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.

Clark Kerr
Entrepreneur, Together, Common

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.

Clark Kerr
Education, Sex, Learning
Quoted in Time, 17 Nov. 1958

He particularly liked about making students safe for ideas, not ideas safe for students.

Clark Kerr
College, Ideas, Purpose
"The Gold and the Blue, Volume One: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967, Academic Triumphs".

The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

Clark Kerr
Idaho, Status Quo, Solutions
Clark Kerr (2001). “The Uses of the University”, p.134, Harvard University Press

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.

Clark Kerr
Confused, Balance, Sake
Clark Kerr (2001). “The Uses of the University”, p.14, Harvard University Press

The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.

Clark Kerr
United States, World, Higher Education
Clark Kerr, Marian L. Gade, Maureen Kawaoka (1994). “Troubled Times for American Higher Education: The 1990s and Beyond”, p.182, SUNY Press

If you are bored with Berkeley and San Francisco, you are bored with life.

Clark Kerr
Bored, Berkeley, Ifs
"The Gold and the Blue, Volume One: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967, Academic Triumphs".

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