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by sterling312 5235 days ago
This reminds me of the recent book review on the Economist.

http://www.economist.com/node/21545983

To quote one passage: "Mr Collini is moved by Newman’s insistence that a liberal education is not about what students learn or what skills they acquire but “the perspective they have on the place of their knowledge in a wider map of human understanding”."