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Scholarship March 29, 2017

“On the Uses of a Liberal Education as Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students”

The Wabash Center

Author
Edmundson, Mark
Publisher
Harper's Magazine (Sept. 1997): 39-49
A college student getting a liberal arts education ponders filling out a questionnaire that includes an opportunity for him to evaluate his instructor. At times it appears that the purpose of his education is just to entertain him.