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H32 -
What Should Every Educated Person Know?

American colleges have confronted this question for more than a hundred years, yet higher education is largely organized in a way that allows faculty to avoid answering it. Why did college evolve in this form? What are some of the answers that have proposed to the question of what educated people should know? And what is the track record of their success?

Scholar:

Louis Menand

Location:

Harvard Hillel

Dates:

3/4/2011

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H32 -	What Should Every Educated Person Know?

	American colleges have confronted this question for more than a hundred years, yet higher education is largely organized in a way that allows faculty to avoid answering it. Why did college evolve in this form? What are some of the answers that have proposed to the question of what educated people should know? And what is the track record of their success?

		Scholar:	Louis Menand
		Location:	Harvard Hillel
		Dates:	3/4/2011