“ It is no longer just engineers who dominate our technology leadership, because it is no longer the case that computers are so mysterious that only engineers can understand what they are capable of. Th… Damon Horowitz
“ The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expense of it," [John] Adams wrote. "There should not be a district of one mile square, wi… Fareed Zakaria
“ Slowly, even though I thought it would never happen, New York lost its charm for me. I remember arriving in the city for the first time, passing with my parents through the First World's Club bouncers… Mohsin Hamid
“ So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter. Andrew Delbanco
“ College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few. David Brooks
“ No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past. Will Durant
“ Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives e… Laurie Halse Anderson
“ How decisive for the Christian educator, or for any educator of good will, is the revelation that man is made in the image and likeness of the three-Personed God? That is like asking what difference i… Anthony M. Esolen
“ In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will d… Isaac Asimov
“ Whereas Taft discouraged the young Yale student from extracurricular reading, fearful it would detract from required courses, Roosevelt read widely yet managed to stand near the top of his class. The… Doris Kearns Goodwin
“ History was a crystal ball that told as much about the future as it did about the past. Robert Kurson
“ He turned the presidency – and the President's House – into something it had not been before: a center of curiosity and inquiry, of vibrant institution that played informal but important roles in the… Jon Meacham
“ Fortunately, our colleges and universities are fully cognizant of the problems I have been delineating and take concerted action to address them. Curricula are designed to give coherence to the educat… William Deresiewicz
“ Reading can break us out of the tunnel vision of the narrow specialty and lead us into many intriguing and important avenues of thought. Gene Edward Veith Jr.
“ When a workman is unceasingly and exclusively engaged in the fabrication of one thing, he ultimately does his work with singular dexterity; but, at the same time, he loses the general faculty of apply… George F. Will
“ Practical utility, however, is not the ultimate purpose of a liberal arts education. Its ultimate purpose is to help you learn to reflect in the widest and deepest sense, beyond the requirements of wo… William Deresiewicz
“ Max sent Scottie some literary advice, the same dictum he gave every college student who called on him. He stressed the importance of a liberal arts education but urged her to avoid all courses in wri… A. Scott Berg
“ The liberal arts do not conduct the soul all the way to virtue, but merely set it going in that direction. Seneca
