Robert M. Hutchins Quotes
We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.
Citations
Hutchins, Robert M. The Conflict in Education in a Democratic Society. Harper & Brothers, 1953, p. 73.
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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.