Author: Robert M. Hutchins

Quotes

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

- Robert M. Hutchins

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

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

- Robert M. Hutchins

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

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

- Robert M. Hutchins

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

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

- Robert M. Hutchins

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

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

- Robert M. Hutchins

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

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

- Robert M. Hutchins

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