Robert M. Hutchins's Quotes
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. HutchinsEducation 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. HutchinsThe object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert M. HutchinsEducation is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
Robert M. HutchinsThe 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. HutchinsThe college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
Robert M. Hutchins