Robert Maynard Hutchins > Quotes

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― 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 Maynard Hutchins

“Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.”
― Robert Maynard Hutchins, The Great Conversation: The Substance Of A Liberal Education

“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ”
― Robert Maynard Hutchins