Robert Maynard Hutchins was an educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School , and a president of the University of Chicago and its chancellor .
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“It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts…it is to teach them to think.”
Robert M. Hutchins
“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”
“Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.”
“A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.”
“A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one”
Robert Maynard Hutchins
“Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.”
“A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea's and common ideals.”
“When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.”
“The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives”
“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.”