Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
“To put an end to the spirit of inquiry that has characterized the West it is not necessary to burn the books. All we… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
