Robert M. Hutchins Quotes
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“Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.”
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The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
— 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
— Robert M. Hutchins
— Robert M. Hutchins
“When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.”
— Robert M. Hutchins
— Robert M. Hutchins
“Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.”
— 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
“My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.”
— Robert M. Hutchins
— Robert M. Hutchins
— Robert M. Hutchins
— Robert M. Hutchins
“The best education for the best is the best education for all.”
— Robert M. Hutchins
— Robert M. Hutchins
— Robert M. Hutchins
— Robert M. Hutchins
Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.
— Robert M. Hutchins
Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.
— Robert M. Hutchins
— Robert M. Hutchins
— Robert M. Hutchins
Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.
— Robert M. Hutchins
“The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.”
— Robert M. Hutchins
— Robert M. Hutchins
“We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.”
— Robert M. Hutchins
The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.
— Robert M. Hutchins
“Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'”
— Robert M. Hutchins
“The fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.”
— Robert M. Hutchins
Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.
— Robert M. Hutchins
It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.
— Robert M. Hutchins
Too few have the courage of my convictions.
— Robert M. Hutchins
— Robert M. Hutchins
We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.
— Robert M. Hutchins
Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.
— Robert M. Hutchins
“Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.”
— Robert M. Hutchins
— Robert M. Hutchins
A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.
— Robert M. Hutchins
Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.
— Robert M. Hutchins
The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.
— Robert M. Hutchins
— Robert M. Hutchins
— Robert M. Hutchins
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