"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives." ― Robert M. Hutchins Topic(s): Education More From Robert M. Hutchins "The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness." "A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals." "A liberal education… frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation." More In Education "You can’t have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they’re not going to hear them in America. I believe it’s part of their education."― Donna Shalala "The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly."― Dominic Cooper "We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."― Marcus Tullius Cicero