Awareness Quote by Sidney Hook

“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

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

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

Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

— Leo Strauss

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

— Ellen Key

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 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

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

— Leo Strauss

“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