The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Quote by Robert M Hutchins

Topics: Apathy Quotes, Death Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even...

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even...

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.

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,...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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....