In Defense of a Liberal Education
A defense of broad, humanistic learning in an age obsessed with job training, arguing that teaching people to think and write freely is exactly what the future demands.
As politicians and parents push students toward narrow, job-focused degrees, Zakaria mounts a personal defense of the broad liberal-arts education that shaped him. Drawing on his own journey from India to Yale, he argues that learning to read critically, write clearly, and think across disciplines is not a luxury but the most practical preparation for a world of constant change. Part memoir, part manifesto, it is a brief, warm case for education that teaches you how to think rather than just what to do.
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