Art Quote by Albert Einstein

“The really significant education in thinking that we're supposed to get at a [liberal arts college] isn't really about the capacity to think but,…

— David Foster Wallace

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think,” he said.55 One”

— Walter Isaacson

For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a…

— Derek Bok

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn…

— Albert Einstein

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

— Albert Einstein

“And I submit that this is what the real, no-shit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: How to keep…

— David Foster Wallace

“Liberal education accomplishes two objects. It produces a liberal frame of mind, and it makes the studious and reflective recipient acquainted with the stream…

— Charles Eliot

“Liberal education intertwines the philosophical and rhetorical so that we learn how to learn, so that we continue both inquiry and cultural participation throughout…

— Michael S. Roth

“A liberal education is not so much about learning to do a job as it is about learning to learn, and to love learning.”

— Scott Hartley

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

— Felix Rohatyn

This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through…

— David Foster

“Education - continuing education, continually honing and expanding the mind - is vital mental renewal. Sometimes that involves the external discipline of the classroom…

— Stephen Covey