A liberal education is, like justice, religion, liberty, fresh air, the natural birthright of every child.

~ Charlotte Mason, A Philosophy of Education, p. 235 ~

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

The ideal of liberal education as perfecting man's rationality, once the cornerstone of higher learning, has been all but lost in our own time. The view that liberal education begins in wonder and aims at wisdom—that is, a knowledge of an order which human reason does not create but can discover and understand—has by and large been replaced by the notion that such an education aims at a kind of cultural enrichment, so that the primary focus of study becomes the works and inventions of man rather than the larger order of which he is a part.