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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Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.
I think there was the studio mentality for a long time that women and girls can relate to a male hero, but boys and men can't relate to a female hero.
 Jennifer Lawrence
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
 Harriet Tubman
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
 William Ellery Channing
You must do the things you think you cannot do.

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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