This paper first traces the historical and cultural roots of liberal learning in East Asian (Confucian) and Western traditions to show how they resemble each other and where they depart. It argues that despite the strikingly different legacies, liberal arts education in both East Asia and the West faces increasingly the same challenges as a result of globalization. In a context of new social fo...

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 351 I. COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES PROLIFERATE FASTER AFTER LIBERALIZATION ............................................................ 352 II. COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES PRODUCED BY LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES ARE HELPING TO CREATE LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES .......................................................

OBJECTIVE Along with impaired discrimination, patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) often show an abnormally liberal response bias (greater tendency to respond "old"). Previously we matched discrimination by varying study-test list length and found that participants' usual bias is maintained, such that patients with AD were more liberal than healthy controls. However, this pattern could be a r...

OBJECTIVE To assess the long-term outcome of brain structure in preterm infants, at an average age of 12 years, who received a red blood cell transfusion for anemia of prematurity. DESIGN As neonates, this cohort of infants participated in a clinical trial in which they received red blood cell transfusions based on a high pretransfusion hematocrit threshold (liberal group) or a low hematocrit...

Liberal multicultural theories developed in late twenty-first century aims to ensure the rights of the minorities, social justice and harmony in liberal societies. Will Kymlicka is the leading philosopher in this field. He advocates minority rights, their autonomy and the way minority groups can be accommodated in a liberal society with their distinct cultural identity. Besides him, there are o...

PATENTS ON THE TRADITIONAL MISSION of liberal arts education have expired. Generic versions of that mission are now regularly included in even the most specialized undergraduate curricula. In the marketplace, meanwhile, the undiluted liberal arts experience is battling the pressures of escalating costs, rising tuitions, and increasing demands for career training as a primary component of underg...