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Author Archives: Christopher Nelson

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Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

A liberal, and liberating, education

by Christopher Nelson April 15, 2013March 30, 2020

Some years before I returned to my alma mater, St. John’s College, as president, one of my sons announced, “Dad, I will talk with you about my college choices, but I don’t want a liberal education, whatever that is.” This son had an interest in automobiles; his uncle was an auto mechanic, and we had […]

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