Quotes About Liberal learning

In general, evangelical fear of liberal learning has contributed to what Mark Noll properly described as "the scandal of the evangelical mind"—which is, in Noll's immortal phrase, "that there is not much of an evangelical mind.

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.