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Robert M. Hutchins
American
Educator
About the author
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
Robert M. Hutchins,
American
Educator
#Idea
#Education
When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.
Robert M. Hutchins,
American
Educator
#Feeling
#Lie
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,
American
Educator
#Light
#Books
#Television
#Invention
#Printing
To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.
Robert M. Hutchins,
American
Educator
#Facts
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,
American
Educator
#Fault
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
Robert M. Hutchins,
American
Educator
#Trade
#Criticism
#Justification
#Schools
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
Robert M. Hutchins,
American
Educator
#Problems
#Students
#Sex
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert M. Hutchins,
American
Educator
#Education
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
Robert M. Hutchins,
American
Educator
#College
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,
American
Educator
#College
#Expression
#Credit
#Seriousness
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,
American
Educator
#Education
#Reform
#Students
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
Robert M. Hutchins,
American
Educator
#Education
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,
American
Educator
#World
#Understanding
#Ideas
#Tradition
#Community
#Communication
#Ideals
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
Robert M. Hutchins,
American
Educator
#Time
#Family
#Man
#Education
#Prison
#Race
#Nation
#Class
#Liberal
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,
American
Educator
#Will
#Death
#Democracy
#Assassination
#Indifference
#Apathy