That's exactly what a liberal education does for students.

这就是当今文科教育对学生的意义。

Together, you've come to Yale to pursue a broad, liberal education.

你们一同来到耶鲁大学，接受通识教育。

A liberal education is also a preparation for the rest of life.

人文教育还是一种对人生的准备。

And the liberal education you have acquired at Yale has prepared you well to do so.

而你们在耶鲁获得的通识教育已经让你们做好了准备。

Harvard liberal education gives students the tools to face these challenges in an informed and thoughtful way.

哈佛人文教育为学生提供一些方法，让学生见多识广、深思熟虑，然后去面对这些挑战。

Regrettably, however, the report's failure to address the true nature of the crisis facing liberal education may cause more harm than good.

但令人遗憾的是，报告没能说明自由教育所面临的危机的实质。这就可能弊大于利。

As you set off on the grand adventure of a liberal education, though, I want also to impart a bit of wisdom.

在你们踏上博雅教育的盛大旅程之际，我还想传授一点智慧。

A Harvard education is a liberal education, that is, an education conducted in a spirit of free inquiry without concern for vocational utility.

哈佛教育是一种人文教育，即一种不用考虑职业效用、在自由探索精神下实施的教育。

The AAAS displays great enthusiasm for liberal education.

美国科学促进会对文科教育表现出极大的热情。

But when we do this we must be sure to keep it in the context of the overall purpose of a liberal education.

但是当我们这么做时，我们必须保证这一切都在通识教育的总体目标之内。

What is Huxley's first definition of a liberal education?

1. 赫胥黎对自由教育的第一个定义是什么？

We will fine-tune your ability to sift fact from falsehood, for the core of a liberal education is comprised of reason, logic, and critical thinking.

我们会帮助你打磨过滤假象的能力，因为通识教育的核心是由理性、逻辑与批判性思维组成的。

What is Huxley's final definition of a liberal education?

6. 赫胥黎对自由教育的最终定义是什么？

What kind of man has had a liberal education?

7. 什么样的人受过通识教育？

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

他们从小就接受了这门艺术的训练，并不总是出身贵族或受过自由教育。

Some kid is going to go to Procter and Gamble, places like that and say I couldn't afford to get a four year liberal education.

一些孩子会去宝洁公司之类的地方 说我付不起四年大学学费。

Her undergraduate studies exemplified the breadth that we expect from a liberal arts education at Princeton, where that concept encompasses the natural sciences, the social sciences, and engineering, along with the humanities.

她的本科学习体现了我们对普林斯顿大学文科教育的广度的期望，这一概念涵盖了自然科学、社会科学、工程学和人文学科。

Such an one and no other, I conceive, has had a liberal education; for he is, as completely as a man can be, in harmony with nature.

我认为，这样的人没有其他人接受过自由教育； 因为他尽可能地与自然和谐相处。

To investigate this field, to bring it to such clearness of formulation as may be possible, is the task of philosophy — an essential element in any liberal education.

研究这个领域，使之尽可能清晰明了，是哲学的任务——任何通识教育的基本要素。

The transformative power of liberal education lies not in a promise to teach you everything but in the preparedness to meet presumptions – including those we harbor ourselves – with a healthy measure of doubt.

通识教育的力量不在于承诺教给你们一切，而在于让你们准备好以有益的怀疑态度来应对各种假设，包括我们对自身所处的假设。