Barbarians Quote by Anonymous

“young people at Western schools and universities have been given the idea of a liberal education, without the substance of historical knowledge. They have…

— Niall Ferguson

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

“For roughly thirty years, young people at Western schools and universities have been given the idea of a liberal education, without the substance of…

— Niall Ferguson

“The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to…

— Albert Einstein

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

— Felix Rohatyn

If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education.

— Tallulah Bankhead

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

— Tallulah Bankhead

Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do…

— Kingman Brewster, Jr

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

— Anonymous

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of…

— Woodrow Wilson

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

“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