Answers Quote by Cynthia Ozick

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

— Anonymous

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 role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the…

— Anonymous

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

Universities are seminaries to produce Leftists

— Dennis Prager

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

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

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

If you go into an academic institution with a clean slate, you are very likely to come out a liberal. That is a huge…

— Andrew Breitbart

Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and…

— Charles William Eliot

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

— Julia Ward Howe

This is why universities, and civil society more generally, are so important for a democracy like ours, founded on a genuine idealism that we…

— Abhijit Banerjee