A boy may be a brilliant mathematician or musician and I have known several astronomers who were contributing to the international journals at the age of thirteen. But I never knew a child of that age who had much that was useful to say about the ends of human life, the purposes of organized society, and the means of reconciling freedom and order.

- Robert Maynard Hutchins, in an address to the Economic Club of Detroit, May 12, 1947. Quoted in ``Robert Maynard Hutchins, A Memoir'', by Milton Mayer, University of California Press, 1993.