Robert M. Hutchins Quotes

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• 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 M. Hutchins

  Education, Learning, Thinking

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• The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Life, Education, Teacher

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• 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

  Education, Teacher, Powerful

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• 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

  Freedom, Patriotic, Democracies Have

  Great Books of the Western World vol. 1, ch. 10 (1952)

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• Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Views, Different, Assuming

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• Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Teaching, Inquiry, Discussion

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• Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Football, Fun, Fraternity

  "What’s the Big Deal With College Football?" by Michael Benson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2012.

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• The best education for the best is the best education for all.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Education For All, Best Education

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• On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Worry, Principles, Needs

  1951 Farewell address to students at the University of Chicago.

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• Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Stupidity, Society, Ease

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• My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Education, Learning, Ideas

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• When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Lying, Exercise, Feeling Down

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• Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Ignorant, Humans, Highest

  ROBERT M. HUTCHINS (1952). “THE GREAT CONVERSATION: THE SUBSTANCE OF A LIBERAL EDUCATION”

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• 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 M. Hutchins

  Wisdom, Law, Forgiving

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• There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  School, Criticism, Justification

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• ...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Peace, Men, World

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• 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

  Book, Light, Supposing That

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• 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

  Communication, Mean, Ideas

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• Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'

  Robert M. Hutchins

  People, Important, Urgent

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• A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Civilization, Issues, Important

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• Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Men, Morality, Economic

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• For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Art, Book, Reading

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• To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Thinking, Facts, Problem

  ROBERT M. HUTCHINS (1952). “THE GREAT CONVERSATION: THE SUBSTANCE OF A LIBERAL EDUCATION”

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• More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk, beat his wife - and watch TV.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Mean, Drunk, Wife

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• College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Football, College, America

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