61 Quotes by Robert M. Hutchins

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

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.

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

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

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.

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

When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

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