Indispensable Quotes by Robert M. Hutchins

...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.

— Robert M. Hutchins

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

— 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.

— 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…

— Robert M. Hutchins

When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

— 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.

— Robert M. Hutchins

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

— Robert M. Hutchins

Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.

— Robert M. Hutchins

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

— Robert M. Hutchins

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

— 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…

— Robert M. Hutchins

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.

— Robert M. Hutchins