Hutchins, Robert Maynard

Japanese: ハッチンズ（英語表記）Hutchins， Robert Maynard

Born January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York
[Died] May 14, 1977, Santa Barbara American educator. Attended Oberlin College from 1915 to 1917. During World War I, volunteered at field hospitals in the United States and Italy. Graduated from Yale University in 1921 and from the law school in 1925. In 1927, at the age of 28, he became dean of Yale Law School, and in 1929, at the age of 30, he became president of the University of Chicago, a position he held until 1945. In 1943, he became chairman of the editorial board of the Encyclopedia Britannica, in 1951, vice-president of the Ford Foundation, and in 1954, he founded the Republic Endowment Foundation and became its president. He later headed the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. He criticized America's mechanical technological civilization and overly specialized vocational education, and advocated and practiced a new educational philosophy and method that valued classics. He was also known as a world federalist. His books include "The Higher Learning in America" (1936) and "Education for Freedom" (43).

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Japanese:

[生]1899.1.17. ニューヨーク，ブルックリン
[没]1977.5.14. サンタバーバラ
アメリカの教育者。 1915～17年オーバーリン・カレッジに在学。第1次世界大戦中はアメリカおよびイタリアの野戦病院で奉仕活動に従事。 21年エール大学卒業，25年同法学部卒業。 27年 28歳のときエール大学法学部長，29年には 30歳でシカゴ大学総長となり，45年までつとめた。 43年『ブリタニカ百科事典』の編集委員会委員長，51年フォード財団副理事長，54年「共和国基金」を創設し，理事長となった。その後民主制度研究センターを主宰。アメリカの機械的技術文明と過度に専門化した職業教育を批判し，古典を重んじる新しい教育理念と方法を提唱，実践した。世界連邦主義者としても知られる。著書"The Higher Learning in America" (1936) ，"Education for Freedom" (43) 。

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