He made his university the home of perhaps the most passionate debates over curriculum and intellectual purpose to take place in recent memory. Hutchins was the great critic of and innovator in twentieth-century higher education. If one of the principal goals of a liberal education is to leave students with an insistent lifelong preoccupation with the question of what education is for and what it is about, what qualities should characterize the truly educated person and what intellectual virtues should be sought and practiced-and why-then Jim is a triumphant example of its success. Under the leadership of Hutchins, the University of Chicago played a significant role not only in Jim's education, but as a permanent benchmark in his continuing thinking about education. In this, too, Jim Watson is a true follower of Hutchins, as his book and indeed his life demonstrate so engagingly. Despite the hyperbole (for he, like Jim Watson, was an ardent tennis player) he had made the point that his priority resided in one relentless form of exercise, that of the mind.
Robert Maynard Hutchins once famously remarked that whenever he felt the urge to exercise, he immediately lay down. MANNERS MAINTAINED WHEN RELUCTANTLY LEAVING HARVARD MANNERS REQUIRED FOR ACADEMIC CIVILITYġ5. MANNERS DEMANDED BY ACADEMIC INEPTITUDEġ3. MANNERS NOTICED AS A DISPENSABLE WHITE HOUSE ADVISERġ0. MANNERS PRACTICED AS AN UNTENURED PROFESSORĩ. MANNERS PASSED ON TO AN ASPIRING YOUNG SCIENTISTħ. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Genre: nonf_biography AVOID BORING PEOPLE: Lessons from a Life in Science James Watson
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