Heather Dubrow Quotes

Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view.

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

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

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

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

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

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

I feel lucky in that I don't really have to go to college to study something job-specific. I just want to go to learn about what is interesting to me and learn about the classes that you don't really get to take in high school because you have to take the basics.

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

I think a well-rounded education keeps us from being bored and boring!

My Grinnell education didn't prepare me directly for the work that I'm doing, but it did give me the tools that I needed to focus my curiosity.

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

The great thing about NYU, and the reason I chose to go there, was the fact that they don't inhibit you as an actor and tell you, 'You only have to study acting. This is it for the rest of your life.' They're really great at balancing other things; you get to study two days a week anything you want unrelated to acting.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.

I think well-read people - the world is open to them.

I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.

Every high school and college graduate in America should, I think, have some familiarity with statistics, economics and a foreign language such as Spanish. Religion may not be as indispensable, but the humanities should be a part of our repertory. They may not enrich our wallets, but they do enrich our lives. They civilize us. They provide context.

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

I had a good experience in college, but I don't think interdisciplinary education is something that's stressed very much at all. It's generally considered to be something of a bad idea.

The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination.

Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.

I'm a liberal arts junkie.

Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense pleasure out of drawing connections between pieces and poems and literature and ideas.