Arts education Quote by Elif Batuman

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

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

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

— Julie Taymor

It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.

— Frank Gehry

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

— Chuck Close

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

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

— Steve Case

If American society wants to invest in its young people, it has an obligation to provide them with an education in which they are…

— Henry Giroux

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

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 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 arts really matter in education. Sometimes the arts are the only way a student is unlocked. Sometimes it's the only way a student…

— Henry Winkler