liberal education

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.

Du Bois repeatedly defended liberal education against those who saw it as impractical.

This is exactly the opposite of the American tradition of liberal education.

Moreover, his convalescence involved a continuing “liberal education.”

Plato speaks of it in the Laws as something which those who learn music as a branch of liberal education should not attempt .

There was no system of liberal education; mental growth and development were not sought as ends.

These eight months in Philadelphia have been a liberal education for me.

Cortes, therefore, was in receipt of a liberal education for his day.

But for the world's opinion those experiences would have been simply a liberal education.

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