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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts. -- Baruch Spinoza
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel. -- Ovid
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 attended an extremely small liberal arts school. There were approximately 1,600 of us roaming our New England campus on a good day. My high school was bigger. My freshman year hourly calorie intake was bigger. -- Sloane Crosley
I was nerdy girl who went to Catholic school and wanted to be an engineer. I was all set to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology. And then I took a hard left turn and studied Liberal Arts at Northern Illinois University, majored in Communications. Then worked in radio as a disk jockey and as the weather girl. -- Cindy Morgan
I'm a liberal arts junkie. -- Mary Chapin Carpenter
I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system. -- Matt Taibbi
Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us. -- Michel de Montaigne
I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college. -- Chick Corea
I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience. -- Mandy Patinkin
I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy. -- Stephen Cole Kleene
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world -- Steve Case
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides. -- Felix Rohatyn
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world. -- Steve Case
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs. -- Marva Collins
It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing. -- Steve Jobs
I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do. -- John Wesley
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
Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors on American faculties. -- David Horowitz
Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class. -- Robert Reich
Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends. -- Edward Levi
Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends. -- Edward Levi
The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts. -- Edward H. Levi
Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts. -- Steve Jobs
Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on. -- Harrison Salisbury
When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education. -- Cesar Pelli
I think liberal art faculties at major universities have views that are not very sound, at least on public policy issues - they may know a lot of French however. -- Charlie Munger
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. -- Martin Luther
I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out. -- Mary Chapin Carpenter
America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou. -- Ben Shapiro
I got a liberal arts education just because I felt like I should to keep my parents happy, but it was for them. If it was up to me, I would've just moved to New York. -- Kathryn Hahn
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports. -- Henry Giroux
The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
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. -- Henry Giroux
I do regret that when I went to college, I didn't have a liberal arts education. I got a BFA in musical theater, so it was a very directed toward what I was doing. I wish that I had expanded my horizons a little bit. -- Heather Dubrow
For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life. -- Derek Bok
Not having finished high school and having been fairly utilitarian in the way I went about college, I didn't have a deep liberal arts background. So we'd go to lunch and people would talk about their favorite seventeenth-century poets, and I'd be thinking, 'Could I even name five poets? From any century?' -- Joy Covey
This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out, -- David Foster
Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple. -- Walt Mossberg
I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my passion for the digital narrative into graduate school as well (also at Berkeley, the Oxford of the West or, perhaps, the Harvard - sorry Stanford!). My first project out of grad school was 'Wired' magazine. -- John Battelle
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks. -- Albert Einstein
I took physics, and lo and behold, there's a lot of physics in 'Lost.' I think for most people, liberal arts educations are more abstract, but for me, it's been a chance to apply the things I've learned more directly. I also took some Folklore and Mythology classes, and I think that a lot of that influenced me. -- Carlton Cuse
Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile...The question is... can man develop to the full as a functionary and a worker and nothing else; can a full human existence be contained within an exclusively workaday existence? Stated differently and translated back into our terms: is there such a thing as a liberal art? -- Josef Pieper
I still think of Heaven as a liberal-arts school. -- Mike White
Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts. -- Ian Mckellen
I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University. -- Jenna Fischer
Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education. -- Joseph Stiglitz
If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace. -- Roger Zelazny
The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts. -- Peter Guber
I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics. -- James Heckman
I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education. -- Charlie Trotter
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
To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct. -- Ovid
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
I went to school at Radnor High School. And I went to a liberal arts college in St. Louis, Missouri, called Lindenwood College. -- Lee Daniels
The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic. -- Lorenzo Ghiberti
The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts. -- Edward H. Levi
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I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality. -- Sydney Pollack
I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors. -- O. R. Melling
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. -- Ronald Reagan
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Unless you took courses in architecture, engineering, or pre-med, the rest of your liberal arts education hardly prepares you for life as the business warrior and champion you envision yourself to be. -- Gene Simmons
When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits. -- Andrea Mitchell
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both. -- Steve Jobs
At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it. -- Joyce Carol Oates

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