liberal education

noun

1. an education based primarily on the liberal arts, emphasizing the development of intellectual abilities as opposed to the acquisition of professional skills.
2. wide experience and education:

   Foreign travel gave him a liberal education.

Example Sentences

Stefanik and other Republicans have criticized university administrators for contracting out their institutions' prestige and services to state-capitalist authoritarian regimes abroad, but haven't done so in ways that strengthen liberal education itself, as I warned in an essay and interview for the Carnegie Council's quarterly journal.

From Salon

Not incidentally, she also bolstered conservatives’ long-running campaign to blame liberal university leaders for ruining liberal education.

From Salon

Greater access to critical, liberal education has created the material circumstances that allow those marginalized by gender and sexuality to exercise free will and prioritize their mental, physical, and emotional well-being over adherence to oppressive social norms.

From Salon

“For the most part, all of liberal education is on the skids, and much of it deserves its fate,” said John Agresto, a former acting chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities under President Reagan.

From Washington Times

Mr. Soros, a Hungarian Jew, survived the Holocaust, fled communism and became one of the single largest funders of democracy promotion, anti-Communism and liberal education around the globe.

From New York Times