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.
Example Sentences
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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
“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
After all, an unquestioned objective of a liberal education, I supposed, was to make students uncomfortable.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
Hill wasn't teaching student readers here how to conduct an inquiry in the spirit of liberal education.
From Salon ● May 8, 2021
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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