The architects of general education envisioned it would benefit all students. Decades later, political affiliation plays a role in determining whether people agree.
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Many Australian students specialise before they’ve had a good general education. American undergraduates do get that, and perhaps Australia has gone too far down the path of early specialisation.
An academic asks: whom should we teach? What should we teach? How should we teach?
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Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies and Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions, Cornell University
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Acting Executive Dean, Faculty of Theology & Philosophy, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Writing and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology