All this cultivates intellect and imagination while at the same time developing self-reliance and independence.
Cultivate your intellect in many areas.
Science has been burning so bright in the 20th century that it has become difficult, preposterous even, to argue as Newman did that the university needed merely to cultivate the intellect.
"The nature of higher education and a university education is one of challenging people to think about the beliefs they have and to engage with critical and provocative material in an effort to grow and cultivate your intellect," he said.
They claim that all disciplines cultivate our intellect and imagination, and that we cannot give the insights and analyses derived from the humanities their proper effect in the world unless we understand the laws of nature and the properties of matter.
A child prodigy, Fuller was reared by a father who focussed on cultivating her intellect to the detriment of, as he later ruefully admitted, her "female propriety".
Currently cultivating his intellect at the University of Miami, Mikael and his 2 best friends recently founded Give Tanks, a philanthropic tank-top company reminding everyone to 'be tankful' for the little things in life, with 25% of profits after taxes invested in community-based development programs in overlooked communities around the world.
Their dream is to create a powerful community of young dreamers where at-risk youth have a place to safely and freely cultivate their intellects, develop positive self-esteem, interact with peers and find a sense of belonging in a city of turbulence.
In Part V of the Ethics, "Of Human Freedom," Spinoza explains that freedom is achieved by understanding the power of the emotions over human actions, by rationally accepting things and events over which one has no control, and by increasing one's knowledge and cultivating one's intellect.
Yale College offers a liberal arts education, one that aims to cultivate a broadly informed, highly disciplined intellect without specifying in advance how that intellect will be used.
He felt that one should balance physical training with "cultivating the mind," exercising "the intellect in study".
