This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you’ve got it when you can’t think of anything that’s your fault. Robert M. Hutchins Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism. Robert M. Hutchins Read Quote
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 Read Quote
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. Robert M. Hutchins Read Quote
To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect. Robert M. Hutchins Read Quote
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. Robert M. Hutchins Read Quote
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. Robert M. Hutchins Read Quote
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 Read Quote
