liberal education
Americannoun
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an education based primarily on the liberal arts, emphasizing the development of intellectual abilities as opposed to the acquisition of professional skills.
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wide experience and education.
Foreign travel gave him a liberal education.
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In that sense, “The Rise and Fall of Rational Control” is an exercise in the liberal education that was already threatened when Mr. Mansfield began teaching History of Modern Political Philosophy in the 1960s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
Mr. Soros, a Hungarian Jew, survived the Holocaust, fled communism and became one of the single largest funders of democracy promotion, anti-Communism and liberal education around the globe.
From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2023
“I don’t think you can have a classical liberal education, for example, without grappling with Marx,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2023
I don't doubt that there should be a reformation of liberal education outside of narrow disciplinary fiefdoms.
From Salon • May 27, 2019
Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty percent of the useful work of the world.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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