Among all the liberal arts, the first is logic, and specifically that part of logic which gives initial instruction about words. ...… — John of Salisbury Copy Share Image
For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Sculpture and painting are very justly called liberal arts; a lively and strong imagination, together with a just observation, being absolutely necessary… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
One of the things that is nice about these old pastors - they were young at the time - who went into… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It's hard to explaining exactly what happened, but I felt in that moment that the divine, however we may choose to define… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was… — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
I attended an extremely small liberal arts school. There were approximately 1,600 of us roaming our New England campus on a good… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
“They were and are children of privilege... the privilege taught, learned, and imbibed, in a "liberal arts education" is the privilege to… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“Though, even if there were no such great advantage to be reaped from it, and if it were only pleasure that is… — Cicero Copy Share Image
“Probably the most dangerous thing about an academic education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Growing up and applying to college, I just imagined that I would study acting. But then, once I went to college, I… — Sophia Takal Copy Share Image
“philosophizing happened only because other activities offered the occasion or the stimulation for it. What were these activities? They appeared most prominently… — John Marenbon Copy Share Image
“Moscow State University.”4 MGU was to the USSR what Harvard is to the United States—except that in the Soviet Union there was… — William Taubman Copy Share Image
I personally think there's going to be a greater demand in 10 years for liberal arts majors than there were for programming… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
“If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“What we can take away from this data is that most STEM training will get students a good income at the starting… — Christian Madsbjerg Copy Share Image
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“I was sitting with the rest of my college graduating class listening to the commencement speaker prepare us for life after graduation,… — Doug Lansky Copy Share Image
Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with… — Owen Gleiberman Copy Share Image
I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Higher educating is defaulting on its obligations to offer young people a quality and broad-based education. This is true in part because… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources… They enlarge his… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“So apparently all homeschooled kids spoke like pretentious liberal arts college students.” — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience. — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
One of my main reasons for going to college is to try to get a liberal arts background. — Yolanda King Copy Share Image
I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy. — Stephen Cole Kleene Copy Share Image
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs. — Marva Collins Copy Share Image
I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics. — James Heckman Copy Share Image
“The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world — Steve Case Copy Share Image
There's a lot to be said for an American-style liberal-arts education, which prevents young people from professionalizing right away. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Cezanne is one of the most liberal artists I have ever seen... he grants that everyone may be as honest and as… — Mary Cassatt Copy Share Image
A new report says ISIS is trying to recruit professionals like doctors, engineers, and accountants. Sorry, kids, even ISIS says they're not… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The really significant education in thinking that we're supposed to get at a [liberal arts college] isn't really about the capacity to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter. — Andrew Delbanco Copy Share Image
Unless you took courses in architecture, engineering, or pre-med, the rest of your liberal arts education hardly prepares you for life as… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
“He turned the presidency – and the President's House – into something it had not been before: a center of curiosity and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
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