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Robert Maynard Hutchins

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born

January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn, The United States

died

May 17, 1977

gender

male

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http://president.uchicago.edu/history/hutchins....

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Professional & Technical, Educational Philosophy

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An educational philosopher, he was dean of Yale Law School (1927-1929), and president (1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–1951) of the University of Chicago.

While he was president of the University of Chicago, Hutchins implemented wide-ranging and controversial reforms of the University, including the elimination of varsity football. The most far-reaching reforms involved the undergraduate College of the University of Chicago, which was retooled into a novel pedagogical system built on Great Books, Socratic dialogue, comprehensive examinations and early entrance to college. Although the substance of this Hutchins Plan was abandoned by the University shortly after Hutchins resigned in 1951, an adapted version of the program survives at Shimer C...more

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	The Great Conversation: The Substance Of A Liberal Education (Great Books Of The Western World, Volume 1) 4.29 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1952	My rating:
	Great Books Of The Western World 54 Vol by Robert Maynard Hutchins (Editor-in-Chief), Ency Britannica 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1952 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Higher Learning in America 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Great Books of the Western World (Vol. 51 - Tolstoy) by Robert Maynard Hutchins (Editor), Leo Tolstoy 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1952	My rating:
	Gateway to the Great Books (Vol. 5 - Critical Essays) by Robert Maynard Hutchins (Editor), Mortimer Jerome Adler (Editor), Clifton Fadiman (Associate Editor) 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1963	My rating:
	Great Books of the Western World (Vol. 40 - Gibbon I) 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1952 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Gulliver's Travels \| Tristram Shandy (Great Books of the Western World, #36) by Robert Maynard Hutchins (Editor in Chief), Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1952	My rating:
	No Friendly Voice 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1969 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Some Observations on American Education 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	My rating:
	The Spirit of Laws \| On the Origin of Inequality \| On Political Economy \| The Social Contract (Great Books of the Western World, #38) by Robert Maynard Hutchins (Editor in Chief), Charles-Louis De Secondat Montesquieu, G.D.H. Cole (Translator) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1952	My rating:

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

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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.”
― Robert Maynard Hutchins

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“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

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