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

  • The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.

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

    Skills   Giving   Dignity  
  • Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested.

    Nature   Fuel   Failing  
    Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.72, Oxford University Press
  • Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

    Learning   Men   Polite  
    Matthew Henry, J.B Williams (1828). “Exposition of the Old and New Testament”, p.788
  • Critical thinking is to a liberal education as faith is to religion. ... the converse was true also - faith is to a liberal education as critical thinking is to religion, irrelevant and even damaging.

    Jane Smiley (2017). “Moo”, p.24, Pan Macmillan
  • A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life.

  • Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.

    Education   Honor   World  
  • In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

    Education   Art   World  
  • Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.

    People   Watches   Facts  
    "Alana Stewart: Hollywood honchos 'hypocritical' when it comes to guns". Interview with Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. January 30, 2013.
  • Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ... It is at the same time a training in boldness. ... It demands from us the boldness implied in the resolve to regard the accepted views as mere opinions, or to regard the average opinions as extreme opinions which are at least as likely to be wrong as the most strange or least popular opinions

    Leo Strauss, Hilail Gildin (1989). “An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays”, p.319, Wayne State University Press
  • No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one.

  • To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history contained in the Bible ...it is not so much praiseworthy to be acquainted with as it is shameful to be ignorant of it.

    John Quincy Adams (1848). “Letters of John Quincy Adams, to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings”, p.34
  • Free speech is essential to education, especially to a liberal education, which encourages the search for truths in art and science. If expression is restricted, the range of inquiry is also curtailed... The beneficiaries of a free society have a duty to pursue the truth and to protect the freedom of expression that makes possible the search for a new enlightenment.

    Education   Art   Truth  
  • The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.

    Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.48, Simon and Schuster
  • The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against the student mind. It is like teaching a child how to pronounce words but not what they mean.

  • Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

  • A liberal education forms a single body. Those, therefore, who from tender years receive instruction in the various forms of learning, recognize the same stamp on all the arts, and an intercourse between all studies, and so they more readily comprehend them all.

    Art   Years   Body  
    "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 12,
  • A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.

    Mean   Men   Views  
    John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”
  • Undergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies.... The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate on a given ethnic or geographical minority; it is that they encourage members of that minority to study themselves - thereby simultaneously negating the goals of a liberal education and reinforcing the sectarian and ghetto mentalities they purport to undermine.

    Ghetto   Goal   Identity  
  • Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned ... it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.

    "Kingman Brewster Jr., 69, Ex-Yale President and U.S. Envoy, Dies" by Eric Pace, www.nytimes.com. November 9, 1988.
  • A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.

    Past   Needs   Assumption  
    Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.121, Counterpoint
  • Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

    Leo Strauss (1995). “Liberalism Ancient and Modern”, p.6, University of Chicago Press
  • Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

    "Quora: What Does Freedom of Speech Mean?". www.yahoo.com. May 13, 2017.
  • To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.

  • I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known to others.... Kindred souls—indeed, my selves otherwise costumed—turn up in books in the most unexpected places. Discovering them is one of the great rewards of a liberal education. If I quote liberally, it is not to show off book learning, which at my stage of life can only invite ridicule, but rather to bathe in this kinship of strangers.

    Book   Self   Oneness  
  • I got a liberal education. A white guy, rapping as Bugs Bunny, on a quintuple-platinum album.

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  • Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom.

    Animal   Men   Training  
  • We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

    Class   Tasks   Want  
    "The Meaning of a Liberal Education". Address to the New York City High School Teachers Association, January 9, 1909.
  • The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student, but in vain. His father was a narrow-minded trader, and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son. Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education. He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animated glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.

    Father   Eye   Ambition  
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2005). “Frankenstein”, p.36, Prestwick House Inc
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