"Education is a political act. For over half a century, the conservative movement has waged a political war on liberal arts education. They have waged this war because they know that without the skills we are provided by a liberal arts education citizens must abdicate our power. They know, like the Greeks and Romans did, that only those with the ars liberalis can do the job of citizens. That is why we must not allow the liberal arts to be further attacked, economically or ethically. A democracy without citizens will not long survive and citizens are only those who have mastered the ars liberalis."

- Conservatives killed the liberal arts (via azspot)

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Source: salon.com
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  14. longlivelongbottom said: Liberal arts is for those who want to learn to think critically, science and math subjects are for those who know how to think critically and want to learn to think analytically too.
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