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Book Review In Defense Of A Liberal Education By Fareed Zakaria

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In Defense of a Liberal Education by Fareed Zakaria. Chapter one, coming to America touches on the authors personal experiences with Liberal Education. He tells his background of getting into college and the differences in college in America and college where he is from. Zakaria is from India, He eventually moved on to attend Yale university and major in History. His parents both started small and moved up in the education world, and they never was up his butt about specializing in something to do with his career. He also has a brother who was very well gifted in athletics and test taking that got him pretty far in life. He first attended a private day school in Bombay.
He shows, by using personal experiences, stories and rhetorical questions

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