Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education i… - Kingman Brewster

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Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned ... it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.

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Kingman Brewster, Jr. (17 June 1919 – 8 November 1988) was an American educator, President of Yale University, and US diplomat.

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