Leo Strauss Quotes About Liberal Education

Quotes about: Liberal Education

• Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

  Leo Strauss

  Greatness, Democracy, Ears

  Leo Strauss (1995). “Liberalism Ancient and Modern”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

• Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

  Leo Strauss

  Greatness, Perfect, Excellence

  Leo Strauss (1995). “Liberalism Ancient and Modern”, p.6, University of Chicago Press

• Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ... It is at the same time a training in boldness. ... It demands from us the boldness implied in the resolve to regard the accepted views as mere opinions, or to regard the average opinions as extreme opinions which are at least as likely to be wrong as the most strange or least popular opinions

  Leo Strauss

  Views, Average, Training

  Leo Strauss, Hilail Gildin (1989). “An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays”, p.319, Wayne State University Press

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