Robert M. Hutchins Quotes


...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.


Citations

Hutchins, Robert M. St. Thomas and the World State. Marquette University Press, 1949, p. 4.

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Robert M. Hutchins
Robert M. Hutchins
  • Born: January 17, 1899
  • Died: May 17, 1977
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Educator

Robert Maynard Hutchins was an American educational philosopher. He was president (1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–1951) of the University of Chicago, and earlier dean of Yale Law School (1927–1929). He was the husband of novelist Maude Hutchins. Although his father and grandfather were both Presbyterian ministers, Hutchins became one of the most influential members of the school of secular perennialism.