My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.
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I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.
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.
I do regret that when I went to college, I didn't have a liberal arts education. I got a BFA in musical theater, so it was a very directed toward what I was doing. I wish that I had expanded my horizons a little bit.
My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.
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.
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.
I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.
I wish I'd gone to a small liberal-arts college where I'd have read the great books instead of a large university where I majored in early-childhood education.
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