Robert M. Hutchins Professions : Novelist Born : January 17, 1899 Died : May 17, 1977 Browse All Authors Top 50 quotes by Robert M. Hutchins The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed. Robert M. Hutchins long america ideas We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it. Robert M. Hutchins knows can-do ...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace. Robert M. Hutchins men peace world Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings. Robert M. Hutchins spiritual men two Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes. Robert M. Hutchins urges exercise lying On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody. Robert M. Hutchins principles worry needs 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. Robert M. Hutchins college expression life The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues. Robert M. Hutchins issues moral world 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 problems alumni three sex A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. Robert M. Hutchins man family education time Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors