A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.
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.
My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.
Men of polite learning and a liberal 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).
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.