10 Quotes & Sayings By Robert M Hutchins

Robert M. Hutchins was born in 1887 in New York City. He received a doctorate from Harvard University and taught at Stanford University, Cornell University, and the University of Chicago. In 1938 he became president of the University of Chicago, a post he held for eight years Read more

In 1948 he was appointed chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, where he worked on military strategy and guided the nation's first peacetime draft. Hutchins's publications include The Higher Learning in America: A Report to the Trustees of Cornell University, The Great Tradition: An Interpretation of American Higher Education, and The End of Education as We Know It: The Crisis in American Higher Learning.

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Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes. Robert M. Hutchins
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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. Robert M. Hutchins
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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. Robert M. Hutchins
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The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. Robert M. Hutchins
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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. Robert M. Hutchins
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A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. Robert M. Hutchins
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Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view. Robert M. Hutchins
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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. Robert M. Hutchins
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The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. Robert M. Hutchins