Whether four years of ...

Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.
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

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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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
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
Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.
 Robert M. Hutchins