Books Quote by Phyllis Goldstein

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

— Felix Rohatyn

“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

“The purpose of Christian education is not academic: it is religious and practical.”

— R.J. Rushdoony

Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.

— Dean Koontz

“However superficially appealing, the idea that a religious tradition could be saved from crisis because a group of intellectuals radically reinterpreted its sacred texts…

— Ross Douthat

“In no way can what the pupil learns, whether from books or industrial training, or from contact with forces and representatives of civilization, be…

— Thomas Lawrence Riggs

“You Christians studied them,” Settembrini exclaimed, “studied the classical poets and philosophers until you broke out in a sweat, attempted to make their precious…

— Thomas Mann

“It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women.…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

“Our purpose is to produce students who have that rare and precious combination of a superb secular education, complemented by faith in the Lord,…

— Boyd K. Packer

“A Christian approach to any field needs to be both critical and constructive. We cannot simply borrow from the results of secular scholarship as…

— Nancy Pearcey

As an undergraduate, I studied the Greek and Roman classics, and I went to graduate school in classics intending to work on the presentation…

— Martha Nussbaum