Ronald Reagan Quotes

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

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

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

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

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

I spent three years at RMIT doing a bachelor of arts and media studies. It was a hugely formative experience. As someone who had a private Catholic school upbringing, the world suddenly became a much bigger and better place for me.

I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.

I do regret that when I went to college, I didn't have a liberal arts education. I got a BFA in musical theater, so it was a very directed toward what I was doing. I wish that I had expanded my horizons a little bit.

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it can't be quantitatively measured as other subjects - it's as fundamental to all education.

There's a lot to be said for an American-style liberal-arts education, which prevents young people from professionalizing right away.

One of my main reasons for going to college is to try to get a liberal arts background.

If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.

I think liberal art faculties at major universities have views that are not very sound, at least on public policy issues - they may know a lot of French however.

We are entering a hyperconnected world where every boss now has more access, cheap access to cheap labor, cheap genius, cheap robot, cheap software, and then this world averages over. There is only one answer to that, and that is to get everyone as close as possible to some form of post-secondary education, it could be vocational, it can be liberal arts, it can be science and technology.

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.

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

I went to NYU to study liberal arts.

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.

Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.