“I was eating lunch with a friend—someone who’s proud to call herself a Massachusetts liberal—and the waitress got her order wrong. My friend treated the waitress just fine, but after she left the table, said to me, ‘Well, if she was smart, she wouldn’t be a waitress’” (Levison 2007). William Pelz, a college teacher from the working class, had this to say about liberal arts: The point is that, at least for the working class and the mass of common people throughout history, much of the liberal arts are not liberal at all. What they are, even if cloaked in politically correct rhetoric, is
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