The books I value most are those that expand the mind, broaden thinking, cast out assumptions, & help create a new awareness regarding issues of major concern.
The festival is so far off the scales, it stretches the mind, broadens the palate and, if things go well, forever changes the way a person thinks about pan-fried sea slugs.
Meanwhile, Erasmus has hosted European students and internationalised our own academic institutions so as to open young people's minds, broaden horizons".
Maybe the goal is to forego the labels altogether, to open our minds, broaden our thinking, be a little more forgiving of ourselves, a little more accepting of each other -- and do something a little more productive with all that reclaimed time and brainspace.
It hones the mind, broadens perspective, and enhances earning potential.
Pick a first degree or a master's program "that broadens your mind, broadens your knowledge, broadens your skills," suggests Lenton, who is today a professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia in Norwich.
Our take: Having an open mind broadens our perspective, helping us grow and build confidence.
With his mind seemingly broadened, he returned to Canada appalled at the narrow nationalism in his native French-speaking Quebec, and the authoritarianism of the province's government.It was Mr Trudeau's belief in a one-nation Canada, rejecting Quebec separatism, that persuaded him to give up a career as a lawyer and enter Parliament.
Articles able to open the mind and broaden knowledge through positive messages are particularly enjoyed.
They had sights to see, minds to broaden, effusions to emit ("My mind was smitten with a feeling of sublimity almost too intense for mortality," gushed Emma Willard, who would eventually found her eponymous school in upstate New York) and journals to fill with ecstatic observations about the Louvre, the cuisine and the weather.
Sometimes a perfect opportunity for mind-broadening appears.
