That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness. — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power. — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education. — Alana Stewart Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is an important subject of liberal education because it examines the role of good works in shaping our conceptions of the… — Robert L. Payton Copy Share Image
“Liberal education accomplishes two objects. It produces a liberal frame of mind, and it makes the studious and reflective recipient acquainted with… — Charles Eliot Copy Share Image
“So far Fichte’s program of education includes the communal separation of children, severe authoritarian top-down training, strict moral duty and selflessness, and… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Free speech is essential to education, especially to a liberal education, which encourages the search for truths in art and science. If… — Norman Dorsen Copy Share Image
“ Tout homme qui reçoit une éducation libérale compte aujourd'hui la chimie parmi les objets les plus indispensables de ses études. Everyone… — Antoine-François De Fourcroy Copy Share Image
A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood.… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable. . . . He should be as well a gentleman… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
“There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education. — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one. — George Seldes Copy Share Image
I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Man's knowledge of science has clearly outstripped his knowledge of man. Our only hope of making the atom servant rather than master… — Harry Woodburn Chase Copy Share Image
A liberal education forms a single body. Those, therefore, who from tender years receive instruction in the various forms of learning, recognize… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
