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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

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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.

Death

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

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

Education