Quotes by : Robert M. Hutchins

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

More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get....

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle....

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction....

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive....

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background,....

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.