Best education & liberal-education Quotes

“To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.”

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Author:Joseph Joubert

“Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her was a liberal education.”

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Author:Richard Steele

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

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Author:A. Bartlett Giamatti

“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.”

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Book:Aims of Education

Source: Aims of Education

“There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.”

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Author:Agnes Repplier

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

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Author:Julia Ward Howe

“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.”

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

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Author:Alfred Whitney Griswold

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

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Author:Sydney J. Harris

“The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“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.”

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Author:Charles William Eliot

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

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Author:Tallulah Bankhead

“The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5

“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.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“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.”

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Book:Letters of John Adams: Addressed to His Wife

Source: Letters of John Adams: Addressed to His Wife

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

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Author:Charles William Eliot

“That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.”

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Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

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