“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
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
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
“[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
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
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
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
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
I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene — David McCullough 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness. — Leo Strauss 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
The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education. — Alfred Whitney Griswold 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
I got a liberal education. A white guy, rapping as Bugs Bunny, on a quintuple-platinum album. — Billy West 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
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
