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 Education
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. -Robert M. Hutchins Education
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 Education
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 Death
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view. -Robert M. Hutchins Education
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 Family
