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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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 M. Hutchins
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
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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.
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There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
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Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
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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.
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