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
important serious sincerity
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.
worry abnormal principles
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.
peace men world
...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.
thinking tests faults
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.
hero army soldier
We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.
wisdom law forgiving
Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.
thinking facts problem
To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.
ignorant humans highest
Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.
education america six
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.
education learning ideas
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
spiritual men two
Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.
civilization issues important
A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death
issues world moral
The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.
education school democratic-ideals
It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.