Accustomed Quote by Julia Ward Howe

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

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

— Ellen Key

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

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

— Charles William Eliot

“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

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a…

— Joseph Joubert

“Liberal education intertwines the philosophical and rhetorical so that we learn how to learn, so that we continue both inquiry and cultural participation throughout…

— Michael S. Roth

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 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