61 Quotes by Robert M. Hutchins

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.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

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

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

Too few have the courage of my convictions.

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.