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liberal arts

noun as in general knowledge studies

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Winning the OZY Genius Award brought the spotlight to New College, a small liberal arts school on Florida’s Gulf Coast, with local TV crews from ABC and NBC eager to interview the young inventor.

From Ozy

Studying political science in a liberal arts college was a way for me to figure out what is real.

From Time

One evening last month, two recent college grads — one from a conservative Christian college, the other from a more ecumenical liberal arts university — got together online with a group of their peers.

Students at the liberal arts school took a self-swab test monitored by a trained professional four times during this period, says John Weinstien, provost and vice president of Simon’s Rock.

Its downtown has a liberal arts college not far from a park full of veteran memorials along the edge of a rushing reservoir.

From Ozy

And I systematically went about doing that in the comfort of a four-year liberal arts education, and it was heaven.

Americans starting with Benjamin Franklin have been suspicious of liberal arts higher education.

Then I went to New School in New York, which is a really small liberal arts school.

And a liberal arts education must not be an education in the art of liberalism.

“Liberal arts” comes from the Latin artes liberales, which referred to the subjects citizens studied in their free time.

The fourth quality required in our Order is the taste for useful sciences and the liberal arts.

In a short time he became learned in all the seven Liberal Arts.

The universities, however, were occupied with the so-called seven liberal arts, which were really scientific studies.

Of Mr. Hope's literary acquirements and his patronage of the liberal arts we have already spoken.

But we, who cultivate and love the liberal arts, cast an attentive eye on what is quite indifferent to the rest of the world.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to liberal arts, such as: mathematics, general education, history, language, liberal studies, and literature.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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