"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 death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment." "A liberal education… frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation." "The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness." More In Education "If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education."― William Jennings Bryan "An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate."― Charles Stanley "THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry."― Joseph Lancaster