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“My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.”

Robert M. Hutchins · Education

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Robert M. Hutchins

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

Graduation

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.

Education

Robert M. Hutchins

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

Robert M. Hutchins

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

Death