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Liberal Education Quotes

Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
- John Adams

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

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

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

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.
- Angelina Grimke

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

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

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

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.
- Tony Judt

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

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

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

Ac-tu-ally," she con-tin-ued dream-ily, "I'm not mod-est or in-hib-ited. What I am is the con-fused prod-uct of a semi pu-ri-tan-i-cal up-bring-ing and a lib-eral ed-u-ca-tion. Which means that I think it's wrong for me to do any-thing, but I think it's per-fectly all right for other peo-ple to do what-ever they want. Does that make sense?
- Judith Mcnaught

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 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

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 forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
- Woodrow Wilson

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