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Liberal education should give people the skills that will help them get ready for their sixth job, not their first job. — Fareed Zakaria

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. — A. Bartlett Giamatti

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs. — Marva Collins

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school. — Jillian Bach

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. — Tallulah Bankhead

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. — Thomas Huxley

What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides. — Felix Rohatyn

If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education. — Tallulah Bankhead

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity. — Ellen Key

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education. — Julie Bowen

Even to see her walk across the room is a liberal education. — C.S. Lewis

Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines. — Madeleine M. Kunin

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world. — Steve Case

Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world. — Tariq Ali

Men of polite learning and a liberal education. — Matthew Henry

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. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one. — George Seldes

Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty percent of the useful work of the world. — Toni Morrison

I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene — David McCullough

To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct. — Ovid

Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education. — Alana Stewart

A liberal education ... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. — Robert M. Hutchins

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged. — Agnes Repplier

When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice. — Michael Joseph Brown

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy. — Stephen Cole Kleene

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education. — Charlie Trotter

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough. — George W. Bush

Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education. — Mary Shelley

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

The necessity of the universal and the particular is a central aspect of liberal education, and is likewise joined in the great narratives of history. — Ellis Washington

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education. — Joseph Stiglitz

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning. — H.W. Brands

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

The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest. — Barbara M. White

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. — Sydney J. Harris

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power. — Charles William Eliot

What are any of the disciplines but a way in which people trying to make sense of the world or the universe? — Joan Countryman

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