Ability Quote by Drew Gilpin Faust

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

For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a…

— Derek Bok

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

— Steve Case

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

“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

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

“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

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

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

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

I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts.…

— Ronald Reagan