Robert M. Hutchins
  • A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

  • The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

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

  • A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

  • Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.