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  title info:
    title: In defense of a liberal education
  name:
    name part: Zakaria, Fareed.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: regular print
    extent: 204 pages ; 22 cm
  abstract: The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all pledged that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing the liberal arts, and they seem to have an unlikely ally in President Obama. While at a General Electric plant in early 2014, Obama remarked, "I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree." These messages are hitting home: majors like English and history, once very popular and highly respected, are in steep decline. "I get it," writes Fareed Zakaria, recalling the atmosphere in India where he grew up, which was even more obsessed with getting a skills-based education. However, the CNN host explains why this widely held view is mistaken and shortsighted. Zakaria expounds on the virtues of a liberal arts education -- how to write clearly, how to express yourself convincingly, and how to think analytically. He turns our leaders' vocational argument on its head. American routine manufacturing jobs continue to get automated or outsourced, and specific vocational knowledge is often outdated within a few years. Engineering is a great profession, but key value-added skills you will also need are creativity, lateral thinking, design, communication, storytelling, and, more than anything, the ability to continually learn and enjoy learning -- precisely the gifts of a liberal education. Zakaria argues that technology is transforming education, opening up access to the best courses and classes in a vast variety of subjects for millions around the world. We are at the dawn of the greatest expansion of the idea of a liberal education in human history.
  table of contents: Coming to America -- A brief history of liberal education -- Learning to think -- The natural aristocracy -- Knowledge and power -- In defense of today's youth.
  note: Fareed Zakaria.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-199).
  subject:
    topic: Education, Humanistic
  subject:
    topic: Education, Humanistic
  subject:
    topic: Humaniora
  subject:
    topic: Utbildning
  subject:
    topic: Humanistisk utbildning
  classification: LC1011 .Z34 2015
  classification: 370.11/2
  identifier: 9780393247688
  identifier: 0393247686
  identifier: 9780393352344
  identifier: 039335234X
  identifier: 2014043268
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150209
    record change date: 20170621104905.0
    record identifier: in00003535708
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng