A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
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.
A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.
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.
A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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.
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).
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