“Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting.”

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

As quoted in "Kingman Brewster Jr., 69, Ex-Yale President and U.S. Envoy, Dies" in The New York Times (9 November 1988) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE5D6143CF93AA35752C1A96E948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print <br class="br">Context: Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting.<br>It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned... it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.

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