Bored Quote by Kingman Brewster, Jr

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

— Anonymous

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

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

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

— Julia Ward Howe

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

“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

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

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

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

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

— Ellen Key

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

A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore…

— Wendell Berry