Robert Maynard Hutchins

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December 11, 2020

Name: Robert Maynard Hutchins
Born: 01/17/1899
Died: 05/17/1977 (78 years old)
Occupation: Educator

Robert Maynard Hutchins (January 17, 1899 – May 14, 1977), was an American educational philosopher. He was president (1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–1951) of the University of Chicago, and earlier dean of Yale Law School (1927–1929). He was the husband of 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.

Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York

Death Place: Santa Barbara, California

Source: Wikipedia

Robert Maynard Hutchins quotes :

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
Robert Maynard 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

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

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 is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
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 their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Robert M. Hutchins