Liberal Education Quotes
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Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.
Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.
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.
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.
The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
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.
Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.
Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.
The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
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.
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.
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.
Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.
If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education.
I got a liberal education. A white guy, rapping as Bugs Bunny, on a quintuple-platinum album.
I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.
Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her was a liberal education.
Philanthropy is an important subject of liberal education because it examines the role of good works in shaping our conceptions of the good society and the good life.
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.