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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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