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. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#assassination #death #democracy #extinction #indifference

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

— Robert M. Hutchins

#educate #lives #object #prepare #their

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#do-it-yourself #fault #got #know #paranoia

When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#down #exercising #feel #feeling #goes

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#class #education #even #family #frees

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

— Robert M. Hutchins

#continuing #dialogue #different #different points #education

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

— Robert M. Hutchins

#idea #inflame #intellects #minds #their

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

— Robert M. Hutchins

#college #cover #graduate #his #intellectual

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#alumni #athletics #campus #faculty #major

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#criticism #distinguished #justification #must #only