“Liberal education was aristocratic in the sense that it was the education of those who enjoyed leisure and political power. If it was the right education for those who had leisure and political power, then it is the right education for everybody today.”

—  Robert Maynard Hutchins

Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)

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