"We don't really have to fire very many teachers. The students do it for us. If the teacher lets them down, they let him know it, and they're not very subtle about it either."
— Shimer College

January 1, 1970

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Universities and colleges in Illinois
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Shimer President F.J. Mullin, quoted in "Among colleges and universities professing to teach students how to think, little Shimer, 128 miles north-west of Chicago, succeeds like almost no place else", Chicago Tribune, 1965-07-25.