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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Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.
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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.
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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.
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My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
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Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.
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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.
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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.
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The best education for the best is the best education for all.
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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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A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
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The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
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Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.
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Too few have the courage of my convictions.