

“Being forced to write clearly means, first, you have to think clearly.”
― In Defense of a Liberal Education
― In Defense of a Liberal Education

“The education system is an increasingly powerful mechanism for the intergenerational reproduction of privilege.”
― In Defense of a Liberal Education
― In Defense of a Liberal Education

“The Yale report explained that the essence of liberal education was “not to teach that which is peculiar to any one of the professions; but to lay the foundation which is common to them all.”
― In Defense of a Liberal Education
― In Defense of a Liberal Education

“Because of the times we live in, all of us, young and old, do not spend enough time and effort thinking about the meaning of life. We do not look inside ourselves enough to understand our strengths and weaknesses, and we do not look around enough - a the world, in history - to ask the deepest and broadest questions. The solution surely is that, even now, we could all use a little bit more of a liberal education.”
― In Defense of a Liberal Education
― In Defense of a Liberal Education
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