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Liberal education opens up the world

By Zhao Xinying | China Daily | Updated: 2016-10-31 08:22

Although he didn't have a liberal arts education, David Madigan, executive vice-president for arts and sciences at Columbia University in the City of New York, is still a "huge believer" in this form of education.

The Irish-born US statistician has three children, all of whom are students at Columbia College, one of the finest undergraduate institutions in the United States providing students with wide-ranging perspectives on subjects including literature, history, music, art and science.

Liberal education opens up the world

"It's been fabulous just to watch their intellectual development," Madigan said, adding that having a liberal education is like having great book clubs, where students work in small groups, read the same thing at the same time and talk about their reading constantly.

Liberal education opens up the world

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