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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“There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.”
Robert M. Hutchins
“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 itches.”
“We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.”
“The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.”
“My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.”
“To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.”
“This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.”
“The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.”
“Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist”
Robert Maynard Hutchins
“A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death”