Robert M. Hutchins Quotes

Robert M. Hutchins — American Educator born on January 17, 1899, died on May 17, 1977

Robert Maynard Hutchins, was an American educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School, and president and chancellor of 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... (wikipedia)

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.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.

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.