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Type: Educator Quotes Category: American Educator Quotes Date of Birth: January 17, 1899 Date of Death: May 17, 1977 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Robert M. Hutchins Related Authors: Leon Kass Michael Pollan Leland Stanford Temple Grandin Booker T. Washington Horace Mann John W. Gardner Stephen Cohen |
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
Robert M. Hutchins A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals. Robert M. Hutchins Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view. Robert M. Hutchins Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. Robert M. Hutchins It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches. Robert M. Hutchins My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. Robert M. Hutchins The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. Robert M. Hutchins The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. Robert M. Hutchins The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. Robert M. Hutchins The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. Robert M. Hutchins There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism. Robert M. Hutchins This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault. Robert M. Hutchins To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect. Robert M. Hutchins We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. Robert M. Hutchins When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away. Robert M. Hutchins |
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