Robert M. Hutchins
Robert M. Hutchins
Robert Maynard Hutchins, was an American educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School, and presidentand chancellorof the University of Chicago. He was the husband of novelist Maude Hutchins. Although his father and grandfather were both Presbyterian ministers, Hutchins became one of the most influential members of the school of secular perennialism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth17 January 1899
CountryUnited States of America
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The best education for the best is the best education for all.
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College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.
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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.
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The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
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...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.
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When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.