Adult life Quote by David Foster Wallace

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 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

“We have the liberal arts and we have the useful arts.”

— James Joyce

“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

“The really significant education in thinking that we're supposed to get at a [liberal arts college] isn't really about the capacity to think but,…

— David Foster Wallace

“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

“There was always a dim chance that the job could lead to employment on a real magazine, which might be fun; besides, college had…

— Richard Yates

The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.

— Barbara M. White

“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

“I was sitting with the rest of my college graduating class listening to the commencement speaker prepare us for life after graduation, and he…

— Doug Lansky

“The key is to integrate our art into our life, not the other way around.”

— Brooks Jensen

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

— Felix Rohatyn