“Plenty of information leads to scarcity of attention. When people are overwhelmed with the volume of information confronting them, it is hard… — Joseph Nye 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
“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
I think the more you have a generalist perspective, I think sometimes the more you can kind of see through the forest… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides. — Felix Rohatyn Copy Share Image
I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice.... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I do regret that when I went to college, I didn't have a liberal arts education. I got a BFA in musical… — Heather Dubrow Copy Share Image
This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from… — David Foster Copy Share Image
My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education. — Julie Bowen Copy Share Image
The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There… — Cesar Pelli Copy Share Image
I got a liberal arts education just because I felt like I should to keep my parents happy, but it was for… — Kathryn Hahn 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
“He didn't understand that it's all connected, that one subject leads to another and forms a kind of chain that rises its… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“And I submit that this is what the real, no-shit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: How… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the… — Barbara M. White 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
My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue… — Jillian Bach 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
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
“Slowly, even though I thought it would never happen, New York lost its charm for me. I remember arriving in the city… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
