The Liberal arts (n.) are the traditional education for a lifetime of social maladjustment, periodic unemployment, teeth-gnashing and a wide range of underpaid careers.
The Liberal arts (n.) are a family of academic disciplines embracing the sublimest achievements of humankind in literature, art, philosophy, music and statecraft through the ages; the traditional education for a lifetime of social maladjustment, periodic unemployment, teeth-gnashing and a wide range of underpaid careers.
The Liberal arts (n.) are the study of the permanent form of human society. As such, the student who studies them begins to understand where the causes are that make society change so rapidly and seem so unpredictable.
The Liberal arts (n.) are the engine room of society, where a student sees the machinery of the human intellect and the human imagination driving all the great power structures around her.
Schooling (n.) is instruction that shapes citizens before they can vote on the syllabus.
Schooling (n.) is childcare with a curriculum attached so that everyone can call it something else.
Schooling (n.) is practice at looking busy for whoever holds the clipboard.
Schooling (n.) grades reading and arithmetic while training you to sit still and ask permission to leave the room.
Teaching (n.) philosophy daily, at fixed hours, to anyone who cares to listen forces the thinker to pretend to know more than he does, and to pretend to think even on days he can think of nothing — emasculated thinking from the first.
Teaching (n.) is hardly possible for adults — The teaching of children is like engraving in stone, the teaching of adults like waves on the sea.
Teaching (n.) is of more importance than exhortation.
Teaching (n.) is a kind of nurturing — It's not so much what is poured into the student, but what is planted, that really counts.