Quotes from Robert Hutchins

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.

The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.