liberal arts
the academic course of instruction at a college intended to provide general knowledge and comprising the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, as opposed to professional or technical subjects.
(during the Middle Ages) studies comprising the quadrivium and trivium, including arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music, grammar, rhetoric, and logic.
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Winning the OZY Genius Award brought the spotlight to New College, a small liberal arts school on Florida’s Gulf Coast, with local TV crews from ABC and NBC eager to interview the young inventor.
Studying political science in a liberal arts college was a way for me to figure out what is real.
One evening last month, two recent college grads — one from a conservative Christian college, the other from a more ecumenical liberal arts university — got together online with a group of their peers.
An innovative Georgetown lab looks to theater to quell political fires | Peter Marks | February 12, 2021 | Washington PostStudents at the liberal arts school took a self-swab test monitored by a trained professional four times during this period, says John Weinstien, provost and vice president of Simon’s Rock.
Two very different colleges share how they kept COVID-19 off campus | Tara Santora | December 4, 2020 | Popular-ScienceIts downtown has a liberal arts college not far from a park full of veteran memorials along the edge of a rushing reservoir.
And I systematically went about doing that in the comfort of a four-year liberal arts education, and it was heaven.
Frances McDormand on 'Olive Kitteridge,' Dropping LSD, and Her Beef With FX's 'Fargo' | Marlow Stern | September 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAmericans starting with Benjamin Franklin have been suspicious of liberal arts higher education.
Then I went to New School in New York, which is a really small liberal arts school.
Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill on ‘22 Jump Street,’ Penis Kissing, and Julie Andrews’s Boobs | Kevin Fallon | June 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd a liberal arts education must not be an education in the art of liberalism.
Bloomberg’s Surprising Harvard Commencement Address Attacks Campus Ideologues | Ron Christie | June 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“liberal arts” comes from the Latin artes liberales, which referred to the subjects citizens studied in their free time.
The fourth quality required in our Order is the taste for useful sciences and the liberal arts.
Secret Societies And Subversive Movements | Nesta H. WebsterIn a short time he became learned in all the seven liberal arts.
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa | Edward HuttonThe universities, however, were occupied with the so-called seven liberal arts, which were really scientific studies.
Education: How Old The New | James J. WalshOf Mr. Hope's literary acquirements and his patronage of the liberal arts we have already spoken.
But we, who cultivate and love the liberal arts, cast an attentive eye on what is quite indifferent to the rest of the world.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) | Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
British Dictionary definitions for liberal arts
the fine arts, humanities, sociology, languages, and literature: Often shortened to: arts
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Cultural definitions for liberal arts (1 of 2)
The areas of learning that cultivate general intellectual ability rather than technical or professional skills. The term liberal arts is often used as a synonym for humanities, although the liberal arts also include the sciences. The word liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, meaning suitable for a free man, as opposed to a slave.
The areas of learning that cultivate general intellectual ability rather than technical or professional skills. Liberal arts is often used as a synonym for humanities, because literature, languages, history, and philosophy are often considered the primary subjects of the liberal arts. The term liberal arts originally meant arts suitable for free people (libri in Latin) but not for slaves.
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