Capacity Quote by Charles William Eliot

“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

Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.

— Julia Ward Howe

“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 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

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

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

— Ellen Key

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

— Stephen Covey

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

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

— Anonymous

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

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