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Robert M. Hutchins famous quotes

  • The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush.

    Quotes robert m hutchins biography death The great hope of democracy is that the mind atrophy, rot in front of the television screen, is not permanent and irreversible. The universities are the imperial outposts of our culture; they are the solid rock on which the rest of our society is built. By doing so, education nurtures a knowledgeable and enlightened citizenry, capable of participating actively and intelligently in democratic processes. Hutchins suggests that the primary objective of education is not merely to impart knowledge but to fundamentally alter one's perspective and broaden their horizons.

    It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
    -- Robert M. Hutchins

    #Freedom#Patriotic#Diversity

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

    #Life#Education#Teacher

  • 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#Thinking#Mind

  • Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.
    -- Robert M. Hutchins

    #Education#Teacher#Facts

  • 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

  • Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
    -- Robert M. Hutchins

    #Views#Different#Assuming

  • 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

  • It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.
    -- Robert M. Hutchins

    #Important#Serious#Sincerity

  • 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

    #Education#School#Trying

  • The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.
    -- Robert M. Hutchins

    #Ideas#Policy

  • We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.
    -- Robert M. Hutchins

  • 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

  • Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.
    -- Robert M. Hutchins

    #Stupidity#Society#World

  • 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

    #Education#Football#Years

  • Mathematics is indispensable as an intellectual technique.

    Quotes robert m hutchins biography His unwavering commitment to liberal arts education and his belief in the power of knowledge and critical thinking to transform individuals and society stands as a testament to his enduring impact on the field of education. Hutchins once wisely remarked that the cumulative knowledge possessed by humanity is of such immense magnitude that no matter how well-educated an individual might be, they can only hope to grasp a minuscule fraction of it. They must be centers of criticism. The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

    In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.
    -- Robert M. Hutchins

    #Thinking#Intellectual#Technique

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

    #Teaching#Inquiry#Discussion

  • Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.
    -- Robert M.

    Hutchins

    #Lying#Exercise

  • 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

    #Thinking#Tests#Faults

  • When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.
    -- Robert M. Hutchins

    #Lying#Exercise#Feelings

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

    Hutchins

    #Learning#Ideas#Mind

  • The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
    -- Robert M. Hutchins

    #Inspirational#Funny#Graduation

  • 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

  • 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

    #Life#College#Expression

  • It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.
    -- Robert M.

    Hutchins

    #Education#America#Six

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

    #School#Criticism#Justification

  • A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.
    -- Robert M.

    Hutchins

    #Writing#Learning#Winning

  • 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 M. Hutchins

    #Education#Looks#Television

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

    Hutchins

    #Men#Moral#Economic

  • America's experiment with government of the people, by the people, and for the people depends not only on constitutional structure and organization but also on the commitment, person to person, that we make to each other.
    -- Robert M. Hutchins

    #Commitment#Government#Organization

  • The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.
    -- Robert M.

    Hutchins

    #Issues#World#Moral

  • 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

  • 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

    #Hero#Army#Soldier

  • 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

  • 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

    #Spiritual#Men#Two

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

    #Men#Achievement#World

  • Too few have the courage of my convictions.
    -- Robert M. Hutchins

    #Belief#Conviction

  • Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being.

    Robert maynard hutchins The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues. Life Education Teacher. Robert M. There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools.

    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#Capable

  • Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised
    -- Robert M.

    Hutchins

    #Race#Intelligence#Democracy

  • 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#Television

  • 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

    #Ideas#America#Long

  • 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