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


Joseph Stiglitz

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I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy...
STEPHEN COLE KLEENE My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should b...
JULIE BOWEN This is like the ideal liberal arts education.
VICTORIA BRINTON For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relev...
DEREK BOK I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.
JENNA FISCHER Fortunately, our colleges and universities are fully cognizant of the problems I have been delineati...
WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs!
ANONYMOUS I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain cha...
STEVE CASE The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will ...
DREW GILPIN FAUST Through this new initiative with Southwest Airlines, we are committed to helping Hispanic students a...
SAN ANTONIO The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her ...
BARBARA M. WHITE By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a colleg...
JOHN DRYDEN It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college....
ALBERT EINSTEIN I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of w...
JOHN WESLEY In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influ...
ISAAC ASIMOV A college education is the greatest investment students can make and college education costs are ris...
CARY ISRAEL My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want t...
JILLIAN BACH Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional ec...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ The foundation of a strong economy and job creation begins with providing every child in America wit...
JARED POLIS To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard....
JOSEPH JOUBERT I do regret that when I went to college, I didn't have a liberal arts education. I got a BFA in ...
HEATHER DUBROW How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS We believe this commitment to education is a win-win. It helps students and parents pay for college,...
DIANE MORAIS I think a liberal arts education isn't necessarily about doing something with your degree; it...
SARAH GADON The NCAA just brings that instant name recognition and credibility to this part of the world. It wil...
CHRIS SNYDER When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high...
CESAR PELLI Learning how to communicate your ideas on paper is very important. Get a good, strong foundation in ...
JOHN WARNOCK We want to ensure that technical college education remains a vital part of getting students work for...
CHRIS WILLIAMS The education of the present-day students is a bit too bookish. The students aim at getting the degr...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA IU Kokomo has always focused on giving students a well-rounded education in the liberal arts, but th...
KOKOMO PERSPECTIVE The students are the ones in the higher education system. We're the stakeholders of higher education...
JAMES TOUCHTON A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is t...
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is t...
BARTLETT GIAMATTI This was not a turkey. Our College of Education has nearly 500 students, and our fall applications a...
CARL KUTTLER It's so important and valuable for them to see students of color being successful ... and getting a ...
MARQUIS HARRISON A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.
ROBERT FROST A liberal is a man too broad minded to take his own side in a quarrel
ROBERT FROST Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers mo...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON While we are committed to providing a strong learning environment for our students and good faciliti...
DARRYL HENDERSHOT Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
MARK TWAIN Education in the ingenious arts and in the liberal professions is still more tedious and expensive. ...
ADAM SMITH Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociol...
HARRISON SALISBURY When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied E...
ANDREA MITCHELL It could be said that a liberal education has the nature of a bequest, in that it looks upon the stu...
WENDELL BERRY The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and b...
JODI RELL Students and community members alike are realizing that the college is here for them and that they c...
HEATHER MEANEY Investing in education and providing 21st century skills for students are fundamental components to ...
CRAIG BARRETT The majority of college students are gaining little understanding of science. And the student popula...
CARL WIEMAN I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ...
BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power.
SHESH NATH VERNWAL Saint Joseph's still is among the smaller-enrollment institutions with a big-time basketball pro...
JACK RAMSAY An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providin...
GAVIN NEWSOM Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER renaissance of the liberal arts.
ROBERT WEISBUCH I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts e...
TOM BROKAW The College Board's recognition of four of our AP programs is a compliment to Keystone School's over...
HUGH MCINTOSH The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected, and mature. Som...
SETH GODIN The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are ...
BARNABY C. KEENEY This initiative holds great promise for expanding the use of online education for students and educa...
JAMEY FITZPATRICK One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to trai...
SUN YAT-SEN Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE Although there are more students from low-income families with college aspirations and more first-ge...
GASTON CAPERTON Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
ELLEN KEY Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity
ELLEN KEY We want all students, white, black, middle-class, affluent, working class, international students, t...
JAYANTI OWENS Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
MATTHEW HENRY I am proud to be part of a policy forming group that makes sure the Collin County students will have...
MAC HENDRICKS I would really like to improve the overall education for students at Ohio State by providing somethi...
ALLISON SNOW We're dealing with a very broad umbrella, ... Not only are we trying to attract different racial gro...
CHRISTINE TAYLOR The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge ...
DEREK BOK I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.
MATT TAIBBI To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To ma...
JENNIFER GRANHOLM To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school, ... T...
JENNIFER GRANHOLM For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.
SIR RICHARD STEELE As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment jou...
HAROLD E. VARMUS One of the biggest credits that gets missed and that we find the most is the education credit for st...
BEVERLY BOSH These students could compete with first-year law students. It's a broad kind of curriculum and diffe...
ALAN BROADMAN Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving.
LAURA WHITCOMB If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Life is a divine blessing for those who live life to add values in the lives of others.
SEEMA BRAIN OPENERS Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first ti...
BARBARA MIKULSKI Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.
ANONYMOUS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what...
DAMIAN WOETZEL Michael usually draws in a crowd variety with a lot of college students.
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JOSEPH BRODSKY What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
JOSEPH BRODSKY I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
JOSEPH HELLER Follow your bliss.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out in...
JOSEPH CONRAD How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
JOSEPH BRODSKY Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
JOSEPH ADDISON Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily diss...
JOSEPH ADDISON The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISON