Active Quote by Emile Durkheim

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

Unless you took courses in architecture, engineering, or pre-med, the rest of your liberal arts education hardly prepares you for life as the business…

— Gene Simmons

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 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

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

— Leo Strauss

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

— Matthew Henry

A degree in Liberal Arts has long been considered the most adaptable, with humanitarian and societal studies that prepare graduates to enter a wide…

— Dinesh Paliwal

Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and…

— Charles William Eliot

“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

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

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

— Steve Case