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

- Robert M. Hutchins

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

- 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 th…

- Robert M. Hutchins

The best education for the best is the best education for all.

- Robert M. Hutchins

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

- Robert M. Hutchins

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having sc…

- Robert M. Hutchins

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

- Robert M. Hutchins

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

- 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