Robert M. Hutchins

Download or read book Robert M. Hutchins written by Mary Ann Dzuback and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-11 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As president of the University of Chicago from 1929 to 1951, Robert Maynard Hutchins came to be one of the most prominent and controversial figures in American higher education. To this day, his vision of what the university should be has given shape to twentieth-century debates over the content and function of education in the United States. In her critical biography, the first to focus on Hutchins' University of Chicago decades, Mary Ann Dzuback gives a full and fascinating account of this complex man—his development, his achievements and failures, and finally, his legacy.