liberal arts
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He advised students in liberal arts to major in law, accounting, or Chinese literature, reasoning that these fields most commonly led to recruitment after civil service exams.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
To recommit to ideals that have made a strong liberal arts education foundational to American democracy: critical thinking, dialogue, pluralism, the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026
I am going to have to pick on liberal arts majors.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
California grads who moved to New York for college were drawn to smaller, competitive private liberal arts colleges, usually with heftier tuitions than California’s public universities.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2025
It felt unbearably selfish, just downright wrong, to be indulging myself with an education in the liberal arts at a fancy private college while Mom and Dad were on the streets.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
