Robert M. Hutchins

Quotes

• “A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave faciliti...”
• “Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, wid...”
• “More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat h...”
• “The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indif...”
• “A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even hi...”
• “Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.”