Best Quotes by Robert M. Hutchins (Top 9)

  1. The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
  2. The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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 tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
  7. Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
  8. 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.
  9. When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.