Undergraduate Liberal Arts

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

    “Barnard’s greatest war service ... was the continuance of full-scale instruction in the liberal arts ... It was Barnard’s responsibility to keep alive in the minds of young people the great liberal tradition of the past and the study of philosophy, of history, of Greek.”
    —Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (1877–1965)

    ““Be faithful to your roots” is the liberal version of “Stay in your ghetto.””
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “all the arts lose virtue
    Against the essential reality
    Of creatures going about their business among the equally
    Earnest elements of nature.”
    —Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)