In Defense of a Liberal Education Quotes.

1. "The crucial challenge is to learn how to read critically, analyze data, and formulate ideas—and most of all to enjoy the intellectual adventure enough to be able to do them easily and often."
- Fareed Zakaria, In Defense of a Liberal Education

2. "We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. —E. O. Wilson"
- Fareed Zakaria, In Defense of a Liberal Education

3. "the central virtue of a liberal education is that it teaches you how to write, and writing makes you think. Whatever you do in life, the ability to write clearly, cleanly, and reasonably quickly will prove to be an invaluable skill."
- Fareed Zakaria, In Defense of a Liberal Education

4. "As John Adams famously wrote during the American Revolution, I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain. So maybe today they’re writing apps rather than studying poetry, but that’s an adjustment for the age."
- Fareed Zakaria, In Defense of a Liberal Education

5. "Being forced to write clearly means, first, you have to think clearly."
- Fareed Zakaria, In Defense of a Liberal Education

6. "liberal education should give people the skills that will help them get ready for their sixth job, not their first job."
- Fareed Zakaria, In Defense of a Liberal Education

7. "Frederick Douglass saw the same connection. When his master heard that young Frederick was reading well, he was furious, saying, Learning will spoil the best nigger in the world. If he learns to read the Bible it will forever unfit him to be a slave. Douglass recalled that he instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom."
- Fareed Zakaria, In Defense of a Liberal Education

8. "The solution is not that people need to major in marketing in college, but that their liberal education should be more structured and demanding. Majors should have some required sequence of basic courses, as in economics."
- Fareed Zakaria, In Defense of a Liberal Education

9. "Jefferson's fear was that without such a system of public education, the country would end up being ruled by a privileged elite that would recycle itself through a network of private institutions that entrenched their advantages."
- Fareed Zakaria, In Defense of a Liberal Education

10. "For Jefferson, there was one step crucial to creating a genuine natural aristocracy. The poor and rich had to have equal access to a good education."
- Fareed Zakaria, In Defense of a Liberal Education