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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 #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. 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

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