Adequate Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers…

— John Lancaster Spalding

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or…

— Alan K. Simpson

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

— Charles William Eliot

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

A liberal education forms a single body. Those, therefore, who from tender years receive instruction in the various forms of learning, recognize the same…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one.

— George Seldes

“It could be said that a liberal education has the nature of a bequest, in that it looks upon the student as the potential…

— Wendell Berry

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

— Ellen Key

A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore…

— Wendell Berry

“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

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which…

— Alan K. Simpson

The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money.

— Anonymous