Top 1200 Liberal Education Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die.

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

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

Higher educating is defaulting on its obligations to offer young people a quality and broad-based education. This is true in part because the liberal arts and humanities have fallen out of favor in a culture that equates education with training.

There's a lot to be said for an American-style liberal-arts education, which prevents young people from professionalizing right away.

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

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

Children become more liberal partly as a reaction to their parents and partly through education. Education tends to make people a bit softer.

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

I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It is the foundation of education.

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

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

A classic liberal is more like a libertarian. I'm sorry. Classic liberal, actually, from the 1800s has a totally different meaning than a liberal who is [modern] classic.

I found out that a lot of my liberal friends weren't liberal because they weren't liberal about approaching anybody else's ideas, or at least standing for it. They started getting really animalistic about, "I can't even associate with this guy. He's stupid. He's an idiot."

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.

A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities and only law enforcement personnel have guns. And, believe it or not, such a liberal utopia does indeed exist. ... It’s called prison.

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

Education should foster; this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire; this education is meant to tame. Education should harden; this education is meant to enervate. The English are too wise a people to attempt to educate the Irish in any worthy sense. As well expect them to arm us.

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

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.

You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along.

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

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

Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

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.

The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.....Anybody who has to live with the people, who covers police stations, covers county courts, brought up that way, has to have a degree of humanity that people who do not have that exposure don't have, and some people interpret that to be liberal. It's not a liberal, it's humanitarian and that's a vastly different thing.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so's George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don't mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.

Man's knowledge of science has clearly outstripped his knowledge of man. Our only hope of making the atom servant rather than master lies in education, in a broad liberal education where each student within his capacity can free himself from trammels of dogmatic prejudice and apply his educational accoutrement to besetting social and human problems.

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

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

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.

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

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

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.

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

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.

There are many types of education: formal education, street education, personal education, experiential education, and I've found that I've had different partners who have a lot of wonderful intellect and education from all different types of sources.

It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.

I'm a classic English liberal. A classical liberal, which is different to the modern interpretation of liberal in America.

I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

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

If you're very liberal, then you should go and find a very liberal Zen teacher, a liberal interpretation of the doctrines of the Soto or Rinzai schools.

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

We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you have to decide for all English literature or no literature, all philosophy or no philosophy. But we have a system that is one part general education and one part specialization. If your parents say you've got to major in computer science, you can do that. But you can also take general education courses in the humanities, and usually you have to.

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.

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

I wish I'd gone to a small liberal-arts college where I'd have read the great books instead of a large university where I majored in early-childhood education.

I think the press, by and large, is what we call "liberal". But of course what we call "liberal" means well to the right. "Liberal" means the "guardians of the gates". So the New York Times is "liberal" by, what's called, the standards of political discourse, New York Times is liberal, CBS is liberal. I don't disagree. I think they're moderately critical at the fringes. They're not totally subordinate to power, but they are very strict in how far you can go. And in fact, their liberalism serves an extremely important function in supporting power.

Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.