Robert M. Hutchins
Robert M. Hutchins
Robert Maynard Hutchins, was an American educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School, and presidentand chancellorof the University of Chicago. He was the husband of novelist Maude Hutchins. Although his father and grandfather were both Presbyterian ministers, Hutchins became one of the most influential members of the school of secular perennialism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth17 January 1899
CountryUnited States of America
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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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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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The best education for the best is the best education for all.
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Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.
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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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Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
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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.
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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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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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Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.
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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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A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.
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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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Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised