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Quotes from Education for Freedom — Robert Maynard Hutchins

1899–1977 United States

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The great problem of our time is moral, intellectual, and spiritual.

Education for Freedom (1943)

The aim of human beings and human societies, if there is one, is material comfort. Freedom is simply doing what you please. The only common principle that we are urged to have is that there are no principles at all.

Education for Freedom (1943)

For forty years and more our intellectual leaders have been telling us they are not true. In the whole realm of social thought there is nothing but opinion. Since there is nothing but opinion, everybody is entitled to his own opinion.

Education for Freedom (1943)

It is doubtful, too, whether we can achieve free minds by concentrating our efforts on making our pupils economically independent. We want free minds which will seek the goods in their order. Those who seek primarily their private economic interests may become enslaved to them and try to enslave the rest of us as well.

Education for Freedom (1943)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Maynard Hutchins (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.