Almost Quote by Derek Bok

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 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 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

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

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

— Yolanda King

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

— Steve Case

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

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

I think the more you have a generalist perspective, I think sometimes the more you can kind of see through the forest and the…

— Steve Case

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

— Felix Rohatyn

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

“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