September 5, 2003

Liberal-Arts Education for the Real World

To the Editor:

William G. Durden's discussion of "The Liberal Arts as a Bulwark of Business Education" (The Review, July 18) deals with a provocative issue that we have been discussing here at Bates College. Our experience, however, suggests a somewhat different view of the relationship today between liberal education and the business sector.

Durden begins by indicting colleges and universities "with liberal arts at their core" for not serving "as an improving, enlightening

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