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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.

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.

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.

I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.

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

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

I think a liberal arts education isn't necessarily about doing something with your degree; it's about becoming a critical thinker. And I think that critical thinking is so integral to being an actor.

A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.