The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
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The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.Robert M. Hutchins
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
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
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. 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.
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It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.
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