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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/)

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

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> [“Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn’t be in the university.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-hutchins/football-fraternities-and-fun-have-no-place-in-the-university-they/)

[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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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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