
Wasif Rizvi: President of Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan
New Books in Education
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The Importance of the Intellectual Experience in a Complex Society
In pagaston, for instance, the first private university was a medical school. The intellectual experience in such a vast and complex society a like pakisan was completely non existent. By not doing it, i don't think that any kind of right liberal arts or humanity's perspective has emergedbause from any other part of the world. It is so heavily dominated by, by by westen academia. So this was largely the intellectual challenge that we thought we should be providing solution to. And that a work in progress. Its ongoing and onbut the second problem was bigger than the first one, that who are we giving thisellectual experience to? This brings in the badly thought out private
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