We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it. - Robert M. Hutchins - Quotesmemo.com

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Robert M. Hutchins

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

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It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts. . . it is to teach them to think.

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

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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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Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

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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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