liberal education

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noun

an education based primarily on the liberal arts, emphasizing the development of intellectual abilities as opposed to the acquisition of professional skills.

wide experience and education: Foreign travel gave him a liberal education.

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How to use liberal education in a sentence

Du Bois repeatedly defended liberal education against those who saw it as impractical.
College Must Be More Than Just a Classy Trade School|Michael S. Roth|August 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This is exactly the opposite of the American tradition of liberal education.
How to Destroy College Education|Michael S. Roth|June 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Moreover, his convalescence involved a continuing “liberal education.”
Portrait of FDR as a Young Man: How He Became a Radical|Harvey J. Kaye|October 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Plato speaks of it in the Laws as something which those who learn music as a branch of liberal education should not attempt .
The Modes of Ancient Greek Music|David Binning Monro

There was no system of liberal education; mental growth and development were not sought as ends.
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8|Various
These eight months in Philadelphia have been a liberal education for me.
Patchwork|Anna Balmer Myers
Cortes, therefore, was in receipt of a liberal education for his day.
South American Fights and Fighters|Cyrus Townsend Brady
But for the world's opinion those experiences would have been simply a liberal education.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles|Thomas Hardy