If you go into an academic institution with a clean slate, you are very likely to come out a liberal. That is a huge problem.
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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.
Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.
Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
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.
I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.
Liberals tend to stress how marvelous education is, in and of itself, and also adore it as a vessel for genuine equality. (That's me, by the way: Hell, I think we should be spending $50 billion a year to make college education free).
Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.