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.
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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.
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Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
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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.
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The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
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My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
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There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
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Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.
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Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.
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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.
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Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.
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We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.
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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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When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.
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Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.
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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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The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
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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.
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The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.
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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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A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death
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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.
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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.
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For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.
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Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.
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...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.
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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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Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.
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Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.
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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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