Fareed Zakaria Commencement Speech Analysis

After viewing Fareed Zakaria’s commencement address, I believe students would gain "the world" from a liberal arts education. Not only knowledge from a vast array of subjects, but knowledge of themselves; their minds would be opened to new ideas, experiences, and attitudes. Furthermore, they would not be bound by a single mind-set, on how things should work. In my career future I need cross-culture perspective, adaptability to work all positions in my organization, and to hold myself/others accountable for what "matters most." I have chosen the social services field to hold a career in; with that being said, I will encounter many other people with cultures/beliefs very different than mine; I must be able to understand their perspective to "meet