Robert M. Hutchins

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians…

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

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

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will…

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive…

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

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

A liberal education… frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time…