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Liberal Education Quotes

Ellen Key quote: "Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can..."
Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity. Ellen Key
Paulo Freire quote: "Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not..."
Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information. Paulo Freire
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
A. Bartlett Giamatti quote: "A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at..."
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
Here were the luxury and priviledge of the well-fed man scoffing at all hopes and progress for the rest. [He] owed nothing to a world that nurtured him kindly, liberally educated him for free, sent him to no wars, brought him to manhood without scary rituals or famine or fear of vengeful gods, embraced him with a handsome pension in his twenties and placed no limits on his freedom of expression. This was an easy nihilism that never doubted that all we had made was rotten, never thought to... Ian Mcewan
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
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... Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Tallulah Bankhead quote: "If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot..."
If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education. Tallulah Bankhead
David McCullough quote: "I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of..."
I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene David McCullough
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
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
Matthew Henry quote: "Men of polite learning and a liberal education."
Men of polite learning and a liberal education. Matthew Henry
Sydney J. Harris quote: "The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's..."
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
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
The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration. Allan Bloom

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