Liberal Arts Colleges

Famous quotes containing the words liberal, arts and/or colleges:

“Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“The textile and needlework arts of the world, primarily because they have been the work of women have been especially written out of art history. It is a male idea that to be “high” and “fine” both women and art should be beautiful, but not useful or functional.”
—Patricia Mainardi (b. 1942)

“So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)