It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he… — 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
