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
lying exercise urges
Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.
family liberal man
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
athletics campus major parking
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
thinking intellectual technique
Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.
belief conviction
Too few have the courage of my convictions.
mean drunk wife
More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk, beat his wife - and watch TV.
stupidity society world
Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.
spiritual men two
Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.
knows can-do
We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.
ideas policy repression
The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.
education football years
Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.
education school democratic-ideals
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.
inspirational funny graduation
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
school criticism justification
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.