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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambsh. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

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We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Great books are great teachers; they are showing us every day what ordinary people are capable of.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

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

Robert Maynard Hutchins

America's experiment with government of the people, by the people, and for the people depends not only on constitutional structure and organization but also on the commitment, person to person, that we make to each other.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Born: January 17, 1899

Died: May 17, 1977 (aged 78)

Bio: Robert Maynard Hutchins was an American educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School, and president and chancellor of the University of Chicago. He was the husband of novelist Maude Hutchins.

Known for:

The higher learning in America (1936)
No friendly voice (1936)
Some observations on American education (1956)
St. Thomas and the world state (1949)

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