Quote by Robert M. Hutchins

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young a

Summary

This quote suggests that the speaker's concept of education involves provoking and challenging the young learners, rather than simply imparting knowledge. They believe in disturbing established thoughts and beliefs to stimulate critical thinking and ignite curiosity. By "unsettling" young minds, they hope to ignite a fervor for learning and encourage independent, analytical thinking that goes beyond conformity. This approach aims to empower students to question the status quo, expand their intellectual capacities, and foster a hunger for knowledge.

Topics

Education

By Robert M. Hutchins

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

Failure

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

E. L. Konigsburg

Goals

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

Kindness

God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow m

God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

Men Guilt

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Art

The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arrange

The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

Christopher Hitchens

Prayer

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to sha

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Georges Bernanos

Faith

PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in

PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Prayer Definition

[T]he downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arr

[T]he downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea, a position that is as lacking in critical thinking as the one of the true believer, and that simply does not help either science or the public at large.

Massimo Pigliucci

Science Skepticism

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the o

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

Jennifer Connelly

Trust

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cud

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

Boris Pasternak

Truth Power Man

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Self Love