Quotes by Robert M. Hutchins

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Philosopher · American · 1899–1977

American philosopher (1899–1977)

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“Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.”

“Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.”

“The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.”

“Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.”

“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”

“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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“A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradit...”
— Robert M. Hutchins
Community World

“The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.”
— Robert M. Hutchins
College Intellectual Cover

“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
Democracy Slow Apathy

“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
Education Time Man

“Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.”
— Robert M. Hutchins
View Kind Dialogue

“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...”
— Robert M. Hutchins
Teach Think Students

“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”
— Robert M. Hutchins
Prepare Young Themselves

“Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.”
— Robert M. Hutchins
health

“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.”
— Robert M. Hutchins
idleness

“Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.”
— Robert M. Hutchins
health