Quotes of Robert Maynard Hutchins - somelinesforyou

“ My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

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

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching – without these a university cannot exist. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ 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. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ 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. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ 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 Maynard Hutchins

“ Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ 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. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ 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 Maynard Hutchins

“ My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ 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. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ 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. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ 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 Maynard Hutchins

“ Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ 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 Maynard Hutchins

“ 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. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ 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. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins
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