Art Quote by David Foster Wallace

“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

“And I submit that this is what the real, no-shit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: How to keep…

— 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

“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

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.

— Julie Bowen

“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

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

— Stephen Covey

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

“in college there is no time to commune with one’s thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one…

— Helen Keller

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

— Felix Rohatyn

One of my main reasons for going to college is to try to get a liberal arts background.

— Yolanda King

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