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 Maynard Hutchins
Topics: Education
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts … it is to teach them to think.
—Robert Maynard Hutchins
Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.
—Robert Maynard Hutchins
Topics: Exercise
When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.
—Robert Maynard Hutchins
Topics: Education
A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea’s and common ideals.
—Robert Maynard Hutchins
Topics: Community, Communication
Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic, criteria.
—Robert Maynard Hutchins
Topics: Morals
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
—Robert Maynard Hutchins
Topics: Education
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 Maynard Hutchins
Topics: Apathy, Government
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
—Robert Maynard Hutchins
Topics: Education
Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching – without these a university cannot exist
—Robert Maynard Hutchins
Too few have the courage of my convictions.
—Robert Maynard Hutchins
Topics: Beliefs
A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive shortwave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
—Robert Maynard Hutchins
Topics: Communication, Understanding
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
—Robert Maynard Hutchins
Topics: Education
A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death.
—Robert Maynard Hutchins
Topics: Civilization
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg’s great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
—Robert Maynard Hutchins
Topics: Television
We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.
—Robert Maynard Hutchins
Topics: Soldiers
Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.
—Robert Maynard Hutchins
Topics: Goodness, Wisdom
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- Booker T. Washington African-American Educationist
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- Robert H. Shaffer American Educator
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