Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.