The highest good and solely useful is liberal education. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education. — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity. — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
I got a liberal education. A white guy, rapping as Bugs Bunny, on a quintuple-platinum album. — Billy West Copy Share Image
Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness. — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her… — Richard Steele 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
I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene — David McCullough Copy Share Image
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
Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority,… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“young people at Western schools and universities have been given the idea of a liberal education, without the substance of historical knowledge.… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Critical thinking is to a liberal education as faith is to religion. ... the converse was true also - faith is to… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“Liberal education intertwines the philosophical and rhetorical so that we learn how to learn, so that we continue both inquiry and cultural… — Michael S. Roth 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
“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
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is… — Chris Carter 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
Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ...… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
“I've even come to a conclusion that would get me blackballed from ever setting foot in liberal education circles again. That is… — A.J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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
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
Undergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies… The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Loth as one is to agree with CP Snow about almost anything, there are two cultures; and this is rather a problem.… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“It could be said that a liberal education has the nature of a bequest, in that it looks upon the student as… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“[Professor Greene's] reaction to GAMAY, as published in the Yale Daily News, fairly took one's breath away. He fondled the word "fascist"… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
“A liberal education is not so much about learning to do a job as it is about learning to learn, and to… — Scott Hartley 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
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
Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness. — Leo Strauss 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
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