“As the minimum function of the administrator is ordering the means, so his highest function is discovering and clarifying and holding before his institution the vision of the end. As the qualifications for the administrator’s minimum function are courage, fortitude, justice, and prudence, so the qualification for his highest function is philosophical wisdom.
It is one thing to get things done. It is another to make them last.”
Robert M Hutchins, “The Administrator: Leader or Officeholder?” in Freedom, Education and the Fund: Essays and Addresses, 1946-1956 (New York: Meridian Books, 1956).
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