2010s, 2015, Speech on (20 July 2015)
“Any education that matters is liberal.”
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.
Misattributed
“What is liberal education,” p. 8
Liberalism Ancient and Modern (1968)
“Keeping you safe keeps me in shape.”
Source: Magic Strikes
“When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.”
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“Of good natural parts and of a liberal education.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 8.
“Men of polite learning and a liberal education.”
Acts 10.
Commentaries
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
“Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.”
To the Finland Station (1940) [Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1972, ISBN 1568495749/1145], Part I, Ch. 5: Michelet Between Nationalism and Socialism, p. 36
