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“My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student body that it has.” quote by Louis Menand — Download Open image

“My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student body that it has.”

Louis Menand

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