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Quote from Robert M. Hutchins,


"Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible."


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Robert M. Hutchins (more quotes by Robert M. Hutchins or books by/about Robert M. Hutchins)


(1899-1977) American educational philosopher, president (1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–1951) of the University of Chicago, and earlier dean of Yale Law School (1927–1929)

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