Liberal Education

Education can give you

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

The school is the

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. Franklin D. Roosevelt

I lament the want

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

The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against the student mind. It is like teaching a child how to pronounce words but not what they mean. Chris Carter

Liberal education develops a

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. Charles William Eliot

The fruit of liberal

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

I got a liberal

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

Women ought to feel

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 source of better

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

Books won’t stay banned.

Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education. Alfred Whitney Griswold