...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die. Robert M. Hutchins More Quotes by Robert M. Hutchins More Quotes From Robert M. Hutchins Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.' Robert M. Hutchins urgent important people When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away. Robert M. Hutchins feeling-down exercise lying The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. Robert M. Hutchins graduation inspirational funny America's experiment with government of the people, by the people, and for the people depends not only on constitutional structure and organization but also on the commitment, person to person, that we make to each other. Robert M. Hutchins government organization commitment Too few have the courage of my convictions. Robert M. Hutchins conviction belief It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic. Robert M. Hutchins three education america Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated. Robert M. Hutchins education football years There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism. Robert M. Hutchins justification criticism school It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education. Robert M. Hutchins democratic-ideals education school Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition. Robert M. Hutchins forgiving wisdom law Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist. Robert M. Hutchins discussion inquiry teaching Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining. Robert M. Hutchins ignorant highest humans Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised Robert M. Hutchins democracies-have intelligence race To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect. Robert M. Hutchins problem facts thinking Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool. Robert M. Hutchins stupidity society ease We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes. Robert M. Hutchins army soldier hero When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be. Robert M. Hutchins would-be education inspirational The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. Robert M. Hutchins repression policy ideas We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. Robert M. Hutchins light supposing-that book 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
