We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it. Robert M. Hutchins More Quotes by Robert M. Hutchins More Quotes From Robert M. Hutchins 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 learningeducationthinking The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. Robert M. Hutchins educationteacherlife 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 democracies-havepatrioticfreedom 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. Robert M. Hutchins powerfuleducationteacher Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university. Robert M. Hutchins fraternityfunfootball College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America. Robert M. Hutchins collegefootballamerica The best education for the best is the best education for all. Robert M. Hutchins education-for-allbest-education A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death Robert M. Hutchins issuesimportantcivilization Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view. Robert M. Hutchins assumingdifferentviews Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria. Robert M. Hutchins economicmoralitymen A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals. Robert M. Hutchins communicationmeanideas Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician. Robert M. Hutchins techniqueintellectualthinking My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. Robert M. Hutchins learningeducationideas A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one. Robert M. Hutchins learningwinningwriting For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable. Robert M. Hutchins readingbookart It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. Robert M. Hutchins sincerityseriousimportant Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible. Robert M. Hutchins educationteacherfacts More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk, beat his wife - and watch TV. Robert M. Hutchins drunkwifemean ...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die. Robert M. Hutchins lightdarknessdeath Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw. Robert M. Hutchins nuisancebernard-shawrealizing
