David Cameron (1966) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
2010s, 2015, Speech on (20 July 2015)
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“Any education that matters is liberal.”
Alan Simpson (1931) American politician
All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half-empty one are contained in that word.
Alan Simpson (b. 1912), an English born educator who became a U.S. citizen in 1954, in "The Marks of an Educated Man" in Readings for Liberal Education (1962), edited by by Louis Glenn Locke, William Merriam Gibson, and George Warren Arms, p. 47.
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Leo Strauss (1899–1973) Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism
“What is liberal education,” p. 8
Liberalism Ancient and Modern (1968)
“Keeping you safe keeps me in shape.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Strikes
“When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.”
Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“Of good natural parts and of a liberal education.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 8.
“Men of polite learning and a liberal education.”
Matthew Henry (1662–1714) Theologician from Wales
Acts 10.
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Tony Blair (1953) former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
We are 35th in the world league of education standards – 35th. At every level, radical improvement and reform.
"We are back as the people's party, says Blair", The Times, 2 October 1996.
1990s
“Your educators can only be your liberators.”
Friedrich Nietzsche Untimely Meditations
Source: Untimely Meditations
“Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.”
Edmund Wilson book To the Finland Station
To the Finland Station (1940) [Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1972, ISBN 1568495749/1145], Part I, Ch. 5: Michelet Between Nationalism and Socialism, p. 36