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The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life.

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

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

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.

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

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).

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

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

Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.