Art Quote by Joseph Stiglitz

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

— Joseph Stiglitz

The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the…

— Anonymous

I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.

— Nora Ephron

Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle…

— Robert Reich

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

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

Ontario’s colleges and universities offer our young people life-changing opportunities. With an education, you can go anywhere and do anything. I am so impressed…

— Kathleen Wynne

As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.

— Harold E. Varmus

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