We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it. Robert Hutchins More Quotes by Robert Hutchins More Quotes From Robert Hutchins The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues. Robert Hutchins ...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die. Robert Hutchins Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view. Robert 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. Robert Hutchins 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. Robert Hutchins 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. Robert 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. Robert Hutchins The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. Robert Hutchins The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. Robert Hutchins There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism. Robert Hutchins
