Children Quote by Stephen R.C. Hicks

“Education - continuing education, continually honing and expanding the mind - is vital mental renewal. Sometimes that involves the external discipline of the classroom…

— Stephen Covey

“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 is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers…

— John Lancaster Spalding

“young people at Western schools and universities have been given the idea of a liberal education, without the substance of historical knowledge. They have…

— Niall Ferguson

“Now, however, the educational system has become the weapon of choice for modern liberals in their project of dismantling American culture.”

— Robert Bork

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

— Julia Ward Howe

“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

It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary,…

— Aristotle

Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ... It is…

— Leo Strauss

“For roughly thirty years, young people at Western schools and universities have been given the idea of a liberal education, without the substance of…

— Niall Ferguson

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

“True education is enlightenment.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita