“Knowing how to prevail in such murky moments is the hallmark of a liberal arts education, and you can benefit from it even if you don’t attend an ultra-selective school such as Harvard, Stanford, or Amherst. Your grades don’t matter as much as your willingness to stretch your ideas and aspirations. In the chapters that follow, you will meet graduates of Mississippi College, the University of Nevada, and San Francisco State who parlayed their liberal arts beginnings into winning careers. Regardless of whether you’re studying philosophy, English, sociology, or any of a dozen other disciplines, you’re being introduced to a wider way of engaging with the world. Payoffs arise later in all sorts of jobs. As the nineteenth-century British educator William Cory put it, the benefits of such an education consist of “the habit of attention… the art of expression… the art of assuming, at a moment’s notice, a new intellectual position… the art of entering quickly into another person’s thoughts”—and even the willingness to accept that you might be wrong.
在这种混沌迷茫的时刻懂得如何站稳脚跟、脱颖而出，正是博雅教育的真正标志。即便你没有就读哈佛、斯坦福、阿默斯特这类顶尖名校，也同样能从中受益。比起分数，更重要的是你是否愿意拓展自己的思想与志向。
在接下来的章节里，你会读到密西西比学院、内华达大学、旧金山州立大学的毕业生，他们凭借本科阶段的博雅教育基础，打造出了成功的职业生涯。无论你主修的是哲学、英语、社会学，还是其他十多个学科中的任何一门，你都在学*一种更开阔的、与世界相处的方式。它的回报，会在日后各式各样的工作中慢慢显现。
正如19世纪英国教育家威廉·科里所言，这种教育带来的益处在于：专注的*惯、表达的艺术、随时切换全新思维立场的能力、快速理解他人思想的本领——甚至包括坦然接受自己可能犯错的胸襟。
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