Robert M. Hutchins

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.