Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues…is on the way to totalitarianism and death.” ~ Robert M. Hutchins (1899-1977) American educational philosopher, president (1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–1951) of the University of Chicago, and earlier dean of Yale Law School (1927–1929)Source: The University of Utopia, 1953