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Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
JOSEPH STIGLITZ![]()
My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should b...
JULIE BOWEN I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.
STEPHEN COLE KLEENE Learning how to communicate your ideas on paper is very important. Get a good, strong foundation in ...
JOHN WARNOCK![]()
I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of w...
JOHN WESLEY I do regret that when I went to college, I didn't have a liberal arts education. I got a BFA in ...
HEATHER DUBROW I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.
MATTHEW MORRISON I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which...
EREZ LIEBERMAN AIDEN![]()
I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.
JENNA FISCHER This is like the ideal liberal arts education.
VICTORIA BRINTON I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a tru...
O. R. MELLING![]()
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain cha...
STEVE CASE![]()
At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that...
DANICA MCKELLAR As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment jou...
HAROLD E. VARMUS Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and p...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the...
SHAKUNTALA DEVI You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year... unfortunately, I had been in the major...
BOB UECKER![]()
I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about t...
DANICA MCKELLAR![]()
I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestlin...
DAN GABLE I had researched him well and I just admired the guy. I thought he had a philosophy of accountabilit...
TODD TURNER![]()
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs!
ANONYMOUS I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks, and acting was the only thi...
JAMES CAAN![]()
If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably woul...
JOHN MALKOVICH![]()
In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influ...
ISAAC ASIMOV What we are seeing is that, in the specialized nature of information economy, a college degree is in...
TIM MCDONOUGH![]()
The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, tak...
ELI BROAD When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied E...
ANDREA MITCHELL![]()
When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high...
CESAR PELLI My husband and I were excited about having a kid - it was having a baby that had us worried. We had ...
CHELSEA CAIN The NCAA just brings that instant name recognition and credibility to this part of the world. It wil...
CHRIS SNYDER A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is t...
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is t...
BARTLETT GIAMATTI![]()
When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I lov...
EDMUND PHELPS![]()
When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As...
PHILIP EMEAGWALI Chadron had a water tower, grain elevators, a tanning salon, a video rental store, a small liberal a...
POE BALLANTINE![]()
Maybe I should have played two more Australians and two less Davis Cups? I could have had more major...
JOHN MCENROE It's great to know that I helped someone play at the next level and get a free college education. Th...
CASAUNDRA WILSON I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school ...
BEN LLOYD-HUGHES![]()
I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts e...
TOM BROKAW![]()
I think a liberal arts education isn't necessarily about doing something with your degree; it...
SARAH GADON Fortunately, our colleges and universities are fully cognizant of the problems I have been delineati...
WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, ...
PETER AGRE I suggest that if those gentleman had had the (right) governance practices, we wouldn't be having a ...
GEOFF REID I don?t regret coming to college. I had a fun year. I had a great year on the court, and off the cou...
CARMELO ANTHONY Now joblessness isn't just for philosophy majors.
KENT BROCKMAN The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her ...
BARBARA M. WHITE![]()
Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers mo...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.
MATT TAIBBI![]()
I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about re...
B. F. SKINNER I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I ...
GEORGE PóLYA My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want t...
JILLIAN BACH![]()
I had been a college teacher. I had taught Greek mythology.
WES CRAVEN![]()
The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislat...
JOHN ADAMS In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.
STEPHEN COLE KLEENE![]()
I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innu...
EDMUND PHELPS![]()
I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged...
LISA KLEYPAS I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidanc...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ There was a Rhodes Scholar on my team, Tom McMillan. My mom had a chance to go to college, but she c...
LEN ELMORE My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford i...
JACQUELINE WINSPEAR![]()
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need a colleg...
JOHN DRYDEN![]()
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college....
ALBERT EINSTEIN![]()
I had a good experience in college, but I don't think interdisciplinary education is something t...
PETER THIEL![]()
O, had I but followed the arts!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE![]()
It could be said that a liberal education has the nature of a bequest, in that it looks upon the stu...
WENDELL BERRY I've always been a liberal and I've always had strong socialist leanings.
DAVID LLOYD![]()
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
JOHN ADAMS![]()
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
JOHN ADAMS I had done theater during high school and college, but with my life and everything I had going on, I...
DASCHA POLANCO![]()
Education in the ingenious arts and in the liberal professions is still more tedious and expensive. ...
ADAM SMITH![]()
What I would like to build is a new centre, a wider, broader centre, which would encompass a lot of ...
LEO VARADKAR![]()
When I was in college at UCLA, I took a playwriting course. I was all set to be a writer. But I had ...
CAROL BURNETT![]()
For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relev...
DEREK BOK It's not outrageous. In college I had a class at 7 at night. It's a fact of life.
JAMES BENNETTS I had this tic where I touch my mouth to my knee, and I'm always screwing up my back. I've h...
DASH MIHOK I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then...
JANET EVANOVICH renaissance of the liberal arts.
ROBERT WEISBUCH One of the discussions I had with Stephen Harper is that I wouldn't bend for anybody,
ALLAN CUTLER![]()
I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.
SPARKY ANDERSON I had a very, very sub-par year last year, and to come out and win one of our majors is gratifying.
KEVIN SHIELDS![]()
People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or n...
MICHAEL MOORE I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profou...
DIAHANN CARROLL![]()
I started attending community college when I was 14 or 15, just doing general education stuff like h...
PALMER LUCKEY![]()
The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected, and mature. Som...
SETH GODIN Why must we socialize, if we seek independence? For we achieve such through others And yet if we ret...
XAVIER CLIFF I could have taken a gamble on Ashley Cole but he only had one training session with the team. Last ...
ARSENAL WENGER![]()
When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was a...
LENA DUNHAM I definitely had a top-notch education.
PAUL GIAMATTI![]()
I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I ha...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER![]()
I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that ti...
DANICA MCKELLAR I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.
CLAIRE FORLANI I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and...
BOYD RICE I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecture...
ALLAN CARR Coach Cole first saw me play in the Carpenter Cup and after that he stayed in touch. I really like t...
JAKE PALUMBO We've had a lot of students come through as audio majors,
BILL MOSELEY![]()
I've always been a huge proponent for education; I graduated high school at 14 years old and gra...
KATHERINE MCNAMARA We're both previous theater majors, so we're very supportive of the arts here.
AMBER CLIFFORD I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing a...
CAMPBELL BROWN I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been...
NATALIE COLE![]()
When I went to college, we had a very good local following, but stations only televised two or three...
SUE WICKS I was an English and history major, and I was in a class that culminated in a play at the end of the...
CATHERINE KEENER
JOSEPH STIGLITZ
My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should b... JULIE BOWEN I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.
STEPHEN COLE KLEENE Learning how to communicate your ideas on paper is very important. Get a good, strong foundation in ...
JOHN WARNOCK
I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of w... JOHN WESLEY I do regret that when I went to college, I didn't have a liberal arts education. I got a BFA in ...
HEATHER DUBROW I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.
MATTHEW MORRISON I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which...
EREZ LIEBERMAN AIDEN
I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University. JENNA FISCHER This is like the ideal liberal arts education.
VICTORIA BRINTON I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a tru...
O. R. MELLING
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain cha... STEVE CASE
At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that... DANICA MCKELLAR As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment jou...
HAROLD E. VARMUS Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and p...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the...
SHAKUNTALA DEVI You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year... unfortunately, I had been in the major...
BOB UECKER
I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about t... DANICA MCKELLAR
I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestlin... DAN GABLE I had researched him well and I just admired the guy. I thought he had a philosophy of accountabilit...
TODD TURNER
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs! ANONYMOUS I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks, and acting was the only thi...
JAMES CAAN
If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably woul... JOHN MALKOVICH
In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influ... ISAAC ASIMOV What we are seeing is that, in the specialized nature of information economy, a college degree is in...
TIM MCDONOUGH
The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, tak... ELI BROAD When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied E...
ANDREA MITCHELL
When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high... CESAR PELLI My husband and I were excited about having a kid - it was having a baby that had us worried. We had ...
CHELSEA CAIN The NCAA just brings that instant name recognition and credibility to this part of the world. It wil...
CHRIS SNYDER A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is t...
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is t...
BARTLETT GIAMATTI
When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I lov... EDMUND PHELPS
When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As... PHILIP EMEAGWALI Chadron had a water tower, grain elevators, a tanning salon, a video rental store, a small liberal a...
POE BALLANTINE
Maybe I should have played two more Australians and two less Davis Cups? I could have had more major... JOHN MCENROE It's great to know that I helped someone play at the next level and get a free college education. Th...
CASAUNDRA WILSON I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school ...
BEN LLOYD-HUGHES
I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts e... TOM BROKAW
I think a liberal arts education isn't necessarily about doing something with your degree; it... SARAH GADON Fortunately, our colleges and universities are fully cognizant of the problems I have been delineati...
WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, ...
PETER AGRE I suggest that if those gentleman had had the (right) governance practices, we wouldn't be having a ...
GEOFF REID I don?t regret coming to college. I had a fun year. I had a great year on the court, and off the cou...
CARMELO ANTHONY Now joblessness isn't just for philosophy majors.
KENT BROCKMAN The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her ...
BARBARA M. WHITE
Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers mo... LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.
MATT TAIBBI
I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about re... B. F. SKINNER I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I ...
GEORGE PóLYA My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want t...
JILLIAN BACH
I had been a college teacher. I had taught Greek mythology. WES CRAVEN
The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislat... JOHN ADAMS In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.
STEPHEN COLE KLEENE
I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innu... EDMUND PHELPS
I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged... LISA KLEYPAS I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidanc...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ There was a Rhodes Scholar on my team, Tom McMillan. My mom had a chance to go to college, but she c...
LEN ELMORE My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford i...
JACQUELINE WINSPEAR
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need a colleg... JOHN DRYDEN
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college.... ALBERT EINSTEIN
I had a good experience in college, but I don't think interdisciplinary education is something t... PETER THIEL
O, had I but followed the arts! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
It could be said that a liberal education has the nature of a bequest, in that it looks upon the stu... WENDELL BERRY I've always been a liberal and I've always had strong socialist leanings.
DAVID LLOYD
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. JOHN ADAMS
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. JOHN ADAMS I had done theater during high school and college, but with my life and everything I had going on, I...
DASCHA POLANCO
Education in the ingenious arts and in the liberal professions is still more tedious and expensive. ... ADAM SMITH
What I would like to build is a new centre, a wider, broader centre, which would encompass a lot of ... LEO VARADKAR
When I was in college at UCLA, I took a playwriting course. I was all set to be a writer. But I had ... CAROL BURNETT
For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relev... DEREK BOK It's not outrageous. In college I had a class at 7 at night. It's a fact of life.
JAMES BENNETTS I had this tic where I touch my mouth to my knee, and I'm always screwing up my back. I've h...
DASH MIHOK I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then...
JANET EVANOVICH renaissance of the liberal arts.
ROBERT WEISBUCH One of the discussions I had with Stephen Harper is that I wouldn't bend for anybody,
ALLAN CUTLER
I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that. SPARKY ANDERSON I had a very, very sub-par year last year, and to come out and win one of our majors is gratifying.
KEVIN SHIELDS
People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or n... MICHAEL MOORE I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profou...
DIAHANN CARROLL
I started attending community college when I was 14 or 15, just doing general education stuff like h... PALMER LUCKEY
The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected, and mature. Som... SETH GODIN Why must we socialize, if we seek independence? For we achieve such through others And yet if we ret...
XAVIER CLIFF I could have taken a gamble on Ashley Cole but he only had one training session with the team. Last ...
ARSENAL WENGER
When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was a... LENA DUNHAM I definitely had a top-notch education.
PAUL GIAMATTI
I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I ha... ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that ti... DANICA MCKELLAR I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.
CLAIRE FORLANI I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and...
BOYD RICE I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecture...
ALLAN CARR Coach Cole first saw me play in the Carpenter Cup and after that he stayed in touch. I really like t...
JAKE PALUMBO We've had a lot of students come through as audio majors,
BILL MOSELEY
I've always been a huge proponent for education; I graduated high school at 14 years old and gra... KATHERINE MCNAMARA We're both previous theater majors, so we're very supportive of the arts here.
AMBER CLIFFORD I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing a...
CAMPBELL BROWN I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been...
NATALIE COLE
When I went to college, we had a very good local following, but stations only televised two or three... SUE WICKS I was an English and history major, and I was in a class that culminated in a play at the end of the...
CATHERINE KEENER
I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listen... 
You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you... 
College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess ... 
Me and Luke are fraternity brothers. Luke Bryan was already in Nashville when I got to college. He h... 
Every single day I wrote a song, I was hoping somebody like Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean or whoever woul... 
Sometimes I get all the credit, and it makes me feel bad because I'm not the only one out here s... 
I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in ... 
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anythi... 
...a woman's voice said, "if you've reached this message and you weren't trying to contact Regin the... 
The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect. 
He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie. 
You are ninety-eight cents' worth of cosmic star dust floating at the obscure edge of an ordinary ga... 
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything... 
I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy. 
The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but t... 
At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my car... 
I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subj... 
One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces. 
Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attentio... 