Sam Pitroda bats for liberal arts education

Sam Pitroda said during a conference in Higher Education Policies in India, China and the United States that too much focus on engineering and medical education has created a situation in India where liberal arts dir not get the kind of attention it deserved.

"A good liberal arts education is important to produce leaders. India has now begun to recognizse that we need not only world class engineering education, we also need world-class liberal arts education."

"And, we agreed that the model we have in (University of) Chicago or Harvard is a model that we need to look at, but it needs to be Indianised -- it has to be of a local context,"

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