Education is not to reform ...

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.
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.
 Robert M. Hutchins

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
I'm pretty conservative when it comes to money. My parents were very working class and constantly working. There was always a very strong work ethic and that's put a more conservative, "save for a rainy day" mentality into me.
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
 Nicolas Winding Refn
The overall similarity is probably in the mentality of law enforcement officers. There's a sense of wanting to really uphold a sense of morality and make sure that the laws are enforced to the letter, whenever possible.
 Benjamin McKenzie
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

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On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.
 Robert M. Hutchins
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
 Robert M. Hutchins
...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.
 Robert M. Hutchins
Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.
 Robert M. Hutchins
Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.
 Robert M. Hutchins