The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

Robert M. Hutchins
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More Quotes By Robert M. Hutchins
  1. Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

  5. 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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