Leon Botstein
Leon Botstein
Leon Botsteinis a Jewish-American conductor, scholar, and the President of Bard College...
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth14 December 1946
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When you have a great building, you are inspired to do something great. For us, the building had the immediate impact of raising the aspirations of everyone involved in the arts.
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To subject colleges to uniform standards is to trivialize what goes on in higher education. Excellence comes in many unusual ways. You cannot apply the rules of high-stakes testing in high schools to universities.
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Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.