The graduate with a Science degree asks: 'Why does it work?' The graduate with an Engineering degree asks: 'How does it work?' The graduate with an Accounting degree asks: 'How much will it cost?' The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks: 'Do you want fries with that?'
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Sculpture and painting are very justly called liberal arts; a lively and strong imagination, together with a just observation, being absolutel...
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The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.
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What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
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Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement
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The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!
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Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
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Engineering: 'How will this work?'
Science: 'Why will this work?'
Management: 'When will this work?'
Liberal Arts: 'Do you want fries with that?'
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Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions
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