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
freedom patriotic democracies-have
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
nuisance realizing bernard-shaw
Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.
views different assuming
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
communication mean ideas
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.
ideas america long
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.
writing learning winning
A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.
thinking intellectual technique
Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.
democracies-have race intelligence
Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised
important serious sincerity
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.
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.
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.