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The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
— Robert M. Hutchins
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Robert M. Hutchins
pedagogue, university teacher
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1899 – 1977
Robert Maynard Hutchins was an American educational philosopher. He was the 5th president (1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–1951) of the University of Chicago, and earlier dean of Yale Law School (1927–1929). His first wife was the novelist Maude Hutchins. Although his father and grandfather were both Presbyterian ministers, Hutchins became one of the most influential members of the school of secular perennialism.
All Quotes by Robert M. Hutchins
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My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
— Robert M. Hutchins
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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 M. Hutchins
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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
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The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
— Robert M. Hutchins