Robert M Hutchins quotes

" The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. " # Education # Life and Living # Preparation

" The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. " # Ideas

" ...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die. " # Death and Dying

" We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it. " # Education

" The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. " # Education # Politicians and Politics # Sex

" The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. " # Education # Colleges and Universities # Nudity

" 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. " # Education # Experts # Intelligence and Intellectuals

" Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes. " # Exercise # Lies and Lying # Love

" We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. " # Television # Books - Reading # Love

" 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. " # Communication # Ideas # Love