“"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."”
"Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings."
- Robert M. Hutchins
Belief
"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 M. Hutchins
Adversity
"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."
- Robert M. Hutchins
Education
"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."
- Robert M. Hutchins
Education
"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."
- Robert M. Hutchins
Education
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
Education
"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."
- John Graham
Education
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain
Education
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
Education
"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."
- Kotomi Ichinose
Education