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“A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.”

Needs Humans Past Human Nature Assumption Liberal Education

Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

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

Want Feels Ignorance Surround Mist Lament Liberal Education

Book:David McCullough Library E-book Box Set: 1776, Brave Companions, The Great Bridge, John Adams, The Johnstown Flood, Mornings on Horseback, Path Between the Seas, Truman, The Course of Human Events

Source: David McCullough Library E-book Box Set: 1776, Brave Companions, The Great Bridge, John Adams, The Johnstown Flood, Mornings on Horseback, Path Between the Seas, Truman, The Course of Human Events

“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 resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.”

Source: Frankenstein

“I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.”

Two School Mother Father Born Class Middle College Brother Towns Middle Class Physicians Small Town Elders Qualified Housewife Bangladesh Liberal Education Younger Sister Muslim Family

Author:Taslima Nasrin

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

People Facts Young Watches Study Liberal Education

Author:Alana Stewart

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

Giving Skills Dignity Liberal Education

Author:Ellen Key

“I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known to others.... Kindred souls—indeed, my selves otherwise costumed—turn up in books in the most unexpected places. Discovering them is one of the great rewards of a liberal education. If I quote liberally, it is not to show off book learning, which at my stage of life can only invite ridicule, but rather to bathe in this kinship of strangers.”

“Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested.”

Should Nature Failing Posts Fuel Owners Farms Crops Woodland Liberal Education Lumber

Book:A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

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