HUTCHINS

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

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching--without these a university cannot exist.

It is possible for a student to win twelve letters at a university without his learning how to write one.

My idea of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

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

The university exists only to find and to communicate the truth.

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.