Art Quote by Barbara M. White

The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations.…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

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

The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. ‘They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of…

— Oliver DeMille

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

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

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a…

— Joseph Joubert

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.

— Marva Collins

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

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world

— Steve Case

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

— Felix Rohatyn

“To go for liberal arts meant becoming that vague, mysterious entity, a 'liberal arts type'--the kind of person who in all likelihood would never…

— Shotaro Yasuoka

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