LIBERAL EDUCATION

Definition: LIBERAL EDUCATION

LIBERAL EDUCATION

1. Education that enlarges and disciplines the mind and makes it master of its own powers, irrespective of the particular business or profession one may follow. Syn: Generous; bountiful; munificent; beneficent; ample; large; profuse; free. Usage: Liberal , Generous . Liberal is freeborn, and generous is highborn. The former is opposed to the ordinary feelings of a servile state, and implies largeness of spirit in giving, judging, acting, etc. The latter expresses that nobleness of soul which is peculiarly appropriate to those of high rank, -- a spirit that goes out of self, and finds its enjoyment in consulting the feelings and happiness of others. Generosity is measured by the extent of the sacrifices it makes; liberality, by the warmth of feeling which it manifests.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Knowledge

Erudition, learning, lore, scholarship, reading, letters; literature; book madness; book learning, bookishness; bibliomania, bibliolatry; information, general information; store of knowledge; education; (teaching); culture, menticulture, attainments; acquirements, acquisitions; accomplishments; proficiency; practical knowledge; (skill); liberal education; dilettantism; rudiments; (beginning).

Teaching

Elementary education, primary education, secondary education, technical education, college education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular education; propaedeutics, moral tuition.

Books

• Liberal Education and the Canon: Five Great Texts Speak to Contemporary Social Issues (reference)

• Orators & Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education (reference)

• Prescribing the Life of the Mind: An Essay on the Purpose of the University, the Aims of Liberal Education, the Competence of Citizens, and the Cult (reference)

• The Demands of Liberal Education (reference)

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Periodicals

• Liberal Education (reference)

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They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble birth, or liberal education.

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Dutch

studium generale. (various references)

Hungarian

általános műveltségre való nevelés. (various references)

Pig Latin

iberallay educationay

Portuguese

educação geral. (various references)

Russian 

гуманитарное образование. (various references)

Spanish

educación liberal. (various references)

Thai

การศึกษาที่ตั้งอยู่บนรากฐานของศิลปศาสตร์. (various references)

Turkish

genel kültür. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: clairaudient, deliberation, ineradicable, reinoculated, tredecillion, uncalibrated.

-5 letters: acetanilide, acidulation, antiliberal, articulable, bidialectal, binucleated, calibration, celebration, counterbade, decarbonate, declaration, dereliction, directional, educational, elucidation, eradication, inalterable, ineluctable, interallied, intolerable, labiodental, librational, lubrication, outbalanced, radiolucent, reallocated, redactional, reductional, reeducation, reinoculate, relocatable, tabernacled, unallocated, unalterable, unelaborate, unliberated, untraceable.