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> [When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-hutchins/when-we-listen-to-the-radio-look-at-television-and-read-the/)

[Robert M. Hutchins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-hutchins/)

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## More by Robert M. Hutchins

> [...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-hutchins/the-fullest-development-of-the-highest-powers-of-men-can-be-achieved/)

[Robert M. Hutchins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-hutchins/)

> [The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-hutchins/the-college-graduate-is-presented-with-a-sheepskin-to-cover-his/)

[Robert M. Hutchins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-hutchins/)

> [The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-hutchins/the-three-major-administrative-problems-on-a-campus-are-sex-for-the/)

[Robert M. Hutchins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-hutchins/)

> [“To put an end to the spirit of inquiry that has characterized the West it is not necessary to burn the books. All we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-hutchins/to-put-an-end-to-the-spirit-of-inquiry-that-has-characterized-the/)

[Robert M. Hutchins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-hutchins/)

> [When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-hutchins/when-i-feel-like-exercising-i-just-lie-down-until-the-feeling-goes/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-hutchins/the-death-of-democracy-is-not-likely-to-be-an-assassination-from/)

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> [For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-hutchins/for-those-who-are-going-to-learn-from-books-learning-the-art-of/)

[Robert M. Hutchins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-hutchins/)

> [Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-hutchins/nobody-can-read-freud-without-realizing-that-he-was-the-scientific/)

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> [Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-hutchins/mathematics-is-indispensable-as-an-intellectual-technique-in-many/)

[Robert M. Hutchins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-hutchins/)

> [There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-hutchins/there-is-only-one-justification-for-universities-as-distinguished/)

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> [When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-hutchins/when-we-listen-to-the-radio-look-at-television-and-read-the/)

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> [It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-hutchins/it-is-not-so-important-to-be-serious-as-it-is-to-be-serious-about-the/)

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> [Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-hutchins/whether-four-years-of-strenuous-attention-to-football-and/)

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> [The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-hutchins/the-policy-of-the-repression-of-ideas-cannot-work-and-never-has/)

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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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-hutchins/education-is-not-to-reform-students-or-amuse-them-or-to-make-them/)

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