Contradictory Quote by George Seldes

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or…

— Alan K. Simpson

A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers…

— John Lancaster Spalding

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

— Ellen Key

“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

As conservatives, we cannot just concede education over to the Democrats. We really need to be actively involved. And that's why I've been such…

— Darryl Glenn

Liberals tend to stress how marvelous education is, in and of itself, and also adore it as a vessel for genuine equality. (That's me,…

— Rick Perlstein

Liberals will not let you improve the schools or the educational opportunities for poor people, because they want to maintain their teachers union status…

— Rush Limbaugh

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

— Charles William Eliot

The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money.

— Anonymous

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

Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.

— Julia Ward Howe