The Liberal arts is concerned with imparting an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life.
The Liberal arts is caught in a paradox whereby downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education claims to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.
The Liberal arts is grounded in the glorious sense of the possible. The exploration and enhancement of the possible through the spread of learning.
The Liberal arts is grounded in the idea of preparing people for citizenship and democracy.
The Liberal arts is at work in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.
The Liberal arts is a vivid argument in support of the fact that words cannot exhaust what we can know.
The Liberal arts is grounded in the idea of learning compassion for one another and learning awe relative to what human beings are.
The Liberal arts is designed to equip students with the flexibility and imagination to recognize opportunities and move in new and sometimes unexpected directions that will benefit one no matter your interests or aspirations.