Zitat des Tages von 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.
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.
When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
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.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.
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.