
Educating for Solitude: A Conversation with William Deresiewicz
New Books in Higher Education
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The Demand for a Liberal Education
I would like to see more demand for a liberal education among the people who go to liberal arts institutions like Princeton. Demand has to do with, I mean, demand to a certain extent is created by supply or it's influenced by supply. And when the liberal education was in abundant supply, it was cheap also, there was a high demand for it. The poorer you are, probably the less likely you are to want just for practical reasons.
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