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Hutchins, Robert Maynard
US educator
dean of Yale Law School 1927-1929
president of University of Chicago 1929-1945
chancellor of University of Chicago 1945-1951
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- "Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes ... different points of view."
- "It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's: remedial readin', remedial'ritin'and remedial'rithmetic."
- "...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die."
- "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."
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Higher Learning in America (Foundations of Higher Education) by Robert Maynard Hutchins (Paperback - Jan 1, 1995)  Usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks |
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Robert M. Hutchins: Portrait of an Educator (Centennial Publications of The University of Chicago Press) by Mary Ann Dzuback (Hardcover - Nov 1, 1991) As president of the University of Chicago from 1929 to 1951, Robert Maynard Hutchins came to be one of the most prominent and controversial figures in American higher education. To this day, his... In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served. |
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Court of Reason: Robert Hutchins and the Fund for the Republic by Frank K. Kelly (Hardcover - Nov 28, 1981) |
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The Thirteen Books Of Euclid's Elements; Introduction To Arithmetic By Nicomachus - Great Books Of The Western World, V11 by Robert Maynard - Editor-in-chief Euclid; Archimedes; Apollonius of Perga; Nicomachus; Hutchins (Hardcover - Aug 28, 2008) |
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Robert Maynard Hutchins: A Memoir by Milton Mayer (Hardcover - Apr 2, 1993) At age 28, he was dean of Yale Law School; at 30, president of the University of Chicago. By his mid-thirties, Robert Maynard Hutchins was an eminent figure in the world of educational innovation and...  |
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Great Books of the Western World (54 Volumes) (Hardcover - May 28, 1987) |
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