Assumption Quote by Wendell Berry

“It could be said that a liberal education has the nature of a bequest, in that it looks upon the student as the potential…

— Wendell Berry

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

“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 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

A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out…

— Sidney Hook

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

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

A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than…

— Will Rogers

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

— Stephen Covey