Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes. Robert M. Hutchins More Quotes by Robert M. Hutchins More Quotes From 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 longamericaideas We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it. Robert M. Hutchins knowscan-do ...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace. Robert M. Hutchins menpeaceworld 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 spiritualmentwo 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 principlesworryneeds 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 collegeexpressionlife 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 issuesmoralworld 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 problemsalumnithreesex 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 manfamilyeducationtime
