liberal education

is one reason why a liberal education must be deeply concerned with works of imagination.

one reason why a liberal education must be deeply concerned with works of imagination.

is the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, a training in the highest form of modesty and boldness.

Liberal education, which consist in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. . . . It is at the same time a training in boldness. . . . It demands from us the boldness implied in the resolve to regard the accepted views as mere opinions, or to regard the average opinions as extreme opinions which are at least as likely to be wrong as the most strange or least popular opinions Leo Strauss

is the gaining of a vision of what human society could be like if these specifically humane factors, the intellect and the imagination, were always operating and always functional.

the gaining of a vision of what human society could be like if these specifically humane factors, the intellect and the imagination, were always operating and always functional.

 helps one to look down on the wealth it prevents one from earning.

A classical education helps you to look down on the wealth it prevents you from earning.

1s 2rimary purpose is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

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

's purpose is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money.

The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money.

is designed to do one thing: unfit you for eighty percent of useful work of the world.

Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty per cent of useful work of the world.

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liberal education