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Robert M Hutchins
 
Date of birth: 17 January 1899
Date of death: 17 May 1977
Country Of Origin: America
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Philosopher

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

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's: remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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