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)

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

    “When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.”
    —Daniel Webster (1782–1852)