Robert M. Hutchins on universities, independent thought, and totalitarianism
A brief quotation...
Article, CBS News: “More than 100 colleges and universities issue letter condemning Trump’s ‘political interference’”
A short passage from educator Robert M. Hutchins…
“A university is a place that is established and will function for the benefit of society, provided it is a center of independent thought. It is a center of independent thought and criticism that is created in the interest of the progress of society, and the one reason that we know that every totalitarian government must fail is that no totalitarian government is prepared to face the consequences of creating free universities.”
—Robert Maynard Hutchins, testimony to Congressional Committee (1952).
Bonus Quotation:
“Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.”
—Robert Maynard Hutchins (1959)