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The outpourings of dismay about the destruction of the Liberal Arts at Curry College have been … gratifying. I suppose that’s the correct word. Thank you, all those of you who wrote such appreciative words. I doubt that those heartfelt comments will change anything, though. The College, and others like it, will change and become utterly unlike what it once was. It will become a type of trade school, grooming students for ‘jobs’ rather than for life. This seems to be what people who have to pay the tuition want.

This is a product of a very long-reaching series of events that have altered the very idea of what education might be in this country.

I remain optimistic, though. One cannot erase awareness and consciousness just through economic manipulations. We are a nation that has always thought beyond the mere practicalities of existence. That’s what we have the concepts of freedom, of equality, of equal opportunity. We all yearn to live decent, significant and heart-based lives. Colleges may go under or be altered, but the need for Liberal Arts will not fade away.