It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he…

Quote by Robert M Hutchins

Topics: Seriousness Quotes

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for...

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for...

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their...

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their...

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will...

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will...

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about...

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about...

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be...

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be...

A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive...

A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive...

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive...

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive...

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place,...

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place,...

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had...

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had...

When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians....

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians....

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be...

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be...

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't...

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't...

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had...

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had...

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Education is the mother of leadership.

Education is the mother of leadership.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own...

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own...

Education is the fire-proofer of emotions

Education is the fire-proofer of emotions