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| | My journey into international Liberal Education - Featured Topic Liberal Education - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Although this worldwide growth of liberal education may be stimulated in part by American energies and models, it rides as much on rich currents that are not native to us. |
 | | But just as often, and sometimes more often, in order to prepare their students, in their lands, these programs focus on their own regional histories, their own native arts and literatures, philosophies and religions, as well as on the recorded and historical accounts of neighboring states and peoples. |
 | | But, though our goals may be shared, I quickly realized a major difference: Our Central Asian colleagues more explicitly and viscerally comprehend the vital importance of the liberal arts to establishing and maintaining their new nations as strong and healthy democracies. |
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