Robert M. Hutchins Quotes

• Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.

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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.

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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.

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  Tags in Proper, Great, Book

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

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  Tags in Object, Their, Themselves, Throughout, Young, Prefer, Prepare, Lives

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

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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.

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  Tags in Globalism, Silence, Communication, Community

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

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  Tags in Like, Feel, Feeling, Until, Just

• 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.

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  Tags in Expression, Credit, Serious, Important

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

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  Tags in Young, Idea

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

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• The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.

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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.

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• A liberal education… frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

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  Tags in Liberal, Time

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

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• 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.

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• The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

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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.

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  Tags in Apathy, Indifference, Rebellion

Robert M. Hutchins (17)

Birth:	17th January, 1899
Death:	17th May, 1977
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Educator

About

Robert Maynard Hutchins, was an educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School, and president and chancellor of the University of Chicago. He was the husband of novelist Maude Hutchins.

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