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Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

Laurie Halse Anderson Art Education Artistic Training Education Liberal Arts

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile

~ Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov Education Liberal Arts Machines

One night I begged Robin, a scientist by training, to watch Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' with me on PBS. He lasted about one act, then turned to me in horror: 'This is how you spend your days? Thinking about things like this?' I was ashamed. I could have been learning about string theory or how flowers pollinate themselves. I think his remark was the beginning of my crisis of faith. Like so many of my generation in graduate school, I had turned to literature as a kind of substitute for formal religion, which no longer fed my soul, or for therapy, which I could not afford.... I became interested in exploring the theory of nonfiction and in writing memoir, a genre that gives us access to that lost Middlemarch of reflection and social commentary.

~ Mary Rose O'reilley

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No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past.

~ Will Durant

Will Durant History Leadership Liberal Arts

Practical utility, however, is not the ultimate purpose of a liberal arts education. Its ultimate purpose is to help you learn to reflect in the widest and deepest sense, beyond the requirements of work and career: for the sake of citizenship, for the sake of living well with others, above all, for the sake of building a self that is strong and creative and free.

~ William Deresiewicz

William Deresiewicz Citizenship Creativity Education Liberal Arts Self

When a workman is unceasingly and exclusively engaged in the fabrication of one thing, he ultimately does his work with singular dexterity; but, at the same time, he loses the general faculty of applying his mind to the direction of the work. His every day becomes more of adroit and less industrious; so that it may be said of him, that, in proportion as the workman improves, the man is degraded. Alexis de Tocqueville

~ George F. Will

George F. Will Calling Flexibility Liberal Arts Vocation

Lewis was studying literary history with the present and future in mind.

~ Philip Zaleski

Philip Zaleski Illustrations Liberal Arts Perspective Persuasion

It is no longer just engineers who dominate our technology leadership, because it is no longer the case that computers are so mysterious that only engineers can understand what they are capable of. There is an industry-wide shift toward more product thinking in leadership--leaders who understand the social and cultural contexts in which our technologies are deployed.Products must appeal to human beings, and a rigorously cultivated humanistic sensibility is a valued asset for this challenge. That is perhaps why a technology leader of the highest status--Steve Jobs--recently credited an appreciation for the liberal arts as key to his company's tremendous success with their various i-gadgets.

~ Damon Horowitz

Damon Horowitz Apple Computers Engineers Human Beings Humanism Leaders Leadership Liberal Arts Product Thinking Steve Jobs Technology

College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few.

~ David Brooks

David Brooks Curiosity Liberal Arts Openness

Important insights ought never to be limited to the group from which may arise.

~ Richard J. Foster

Richard J. Foster Curiosity Liberal Arts

Whereas Taft discouraged the young Yale student from extracurricular reading, fearful it would detract from required courses, Roosevelt read widely yet managed to stand near the top of his class. The breath of his numerous interests allowed him to draw on knowledge across various disciplines, from zoology in philosophy and religion, from poetry and drama to history and politics.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin Curiosity Education Liberal Arts

He turned the presidency – and the President's House – into something it had not been before: a center of curiosity and inquiry, of vibrant institution that played informal but important roles in the broader life of the nation, from science to literature.

~ Jon Meacham

Jon Meacham Curiosity Inquiry Leadership Liberal Arts

Slowly, even though I thought it would never happen, New York lost its charm for me. I remember arriving in the city for the first time, passing with my parents through the First World's Club bouncers at Immigration, getting into a massive cab that didn't have a moment to waste, and falling in love as soon as we shot onto the bridge and I saw Manhattan rise up through the looks of parental terror reflected in the window. I lost my virginity in New York, twice (the second one wanted to believe he was the first so badly). I had my mind blown open by the combination of a liberal arts education and a drug-popping international crowd. I became tough. I had fun. I learned so much.But now New York was starting to feel empty, a great party that had gone on too long and was showing no sign of ending soon. I had a headache, and I was tired. I'd danced enough. I wanted a quiet conversation with someone who knew what load-shedding was.

~ Mohsin Hamid

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The liberal arts do not conduct the soul all the way to virtue, but merely set it going in that direction.

~ Seneca

Seneca Liberal Arts Virtue

How decisive for the Christian educator, or for any educator of good will, is the revelation that man is made in the image and likeness of the three-Personed God? That is like asking what difference it will make to us if we keep in mind that a human being is made not for the processing of data, but for wisdom; not for the utilitarian satisfaction of appetite, but for love; not for the domination of nature, but for participation in it; not for the autonomy of an isolated self, but for communion.

~ Anthony M. Esolen

Anthony M. Esolen Catholic Education Educational Philosophy Liberal Arts

Fortunately, our colleges and universities are fully cognizant of the problems I have been delineating and take concerted action to address them. Curricula are designed to give coherence to the educational experience and to challenge students to develop a strong degree of moral awareness. Professors, deeply involved with the enterprise of undergraduate instruction, are committed to their students' intellectual growth and insist on maintaining the highest standards of academic rigor. Career services keep themselves informed about the broad range of postgraduate options and make a point of steering students away from conventional choices. A policy of noncooperation with U.S. News has taken hold, depriving the magazine of the data requisite to calculate its rankings. Rather than squandering money on luxurious amenities and exorbitant administrative salaries, schools have rededicated themselves to their core missions of teaching and the liberal arts. I'm kidding, of course.

~ William Deresiewicz

William Deresiewicz Academia Academics Career College Education Liberal Arts Professors Students University

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

~ Andrew Delbanco

Andrew Delbanco College Education Liberal Arts University
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