Liberal Arts College Quotes

• It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Art, Book

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.100, Princeton University Press

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• The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, College, Thinking

  "Einstein: His Life and Times". Book by Philipp Frank (p. 185), 1947.

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• The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.

  Edward H. Levi

  Art, College, Giving

  Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.89, University of Chicago Press

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• I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.

  Jenna Fischer

  Art, College, Littles

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• I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Art, College, Wanted

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• Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Education, Art, College

  "Joseph E. Stiglitz - Biographical". "Les Prix Nobel" ("The Nobel Prizes 2001") edited by Tore Frängsmyr, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. 2002.

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• I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

  Chick Corea

  Art, College, Want

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• One of the things that is nice about these old pastors - they were young at the time - who went into the Middle West is that they were real humanists. They were often linguists, for example, and the schools that they established were then, as they are now, real liberal arts colleges where people studied the humanities in a very broad sense. I think that should be reflected in his mind; appropriately, it is.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Art, Real, Nice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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