Robert M. Hutchins, (1899-1977) American educational philosopher, president (1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–1951) of the University of Chicago, and earlier dean of Yale Law School (1927–1929) Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-5] of 5 Robert M. Hutchins quotesRobert M. Hutchins QuotesRobert M. Hutchins Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.~ Robert M. Hutchins A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues…is on the way to totalitarianism and death.~ 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.~ Robert M. Hutchins The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.~ Robert M. Hutchins The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.~ Robert M. Hutchins Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print