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Robert M. Hutchins Quotes
«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.»
«The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.»
Author: Robert M. Hutchins
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
educate, educates, education, object, prepare, The Object of, throughout, young
«Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.»
Author: Robert M. Hutchins
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
assumes, continuing, dialogue, dialogues, points, points of view
«The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.»
Author: Robert M. Hutchins
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying,
Democracy
| Keywords:
ambush, ambushes, apathy, assassination, assassinations, Death of, extinction, undernourishment
«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.»
Author: Robert M. Hutchins
(Educator, Writer)
| Keywords:
amuse, expert, horizons, inflame, inflamed, inflames, reform, technician, technicians, unsettle, unsettled, unsettles, unsettling, widen
«There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.»
Author: Robert M. Hutchins
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
University
| Keywords:
centers, distinguished, justification, universities
«A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.»
Author: Robert M. Hutchins
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
background, Background and, frees, House of, liberal, prison house, The Prison
«A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea's and common ideals.»
Author: Robert M. Hutchins
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Communication,
Community,
World
| Keywords:
extensive, facilities, globe, ideals, scattered, software, tradition
«It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.»
Author: Robert M. Hutchins
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Seriousness
| Keywords:
college student, itched, itches, itching, monkey, seriousness, student, The Monkey, wears
«We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.»
Author: Robert M. Hutchins
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
comic, comic book, comic books, directed, Gutenberg, printing, Supposing