Robert M. Hutchins Quotes
Top 32 wise famous quotes and sayings by Robert M. Hutchins
Robert M. Hutchins Famous Quotes & Sayings
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For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.
A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death
We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.
Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.
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.
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.
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
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.
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.
Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.
To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.
Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
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.
Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.